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Installation options

he manner in how your software integrates with your system depends on your package manager. Yet in the case of applications such as your whiteboard software you may want it packaged differently. Most of the programs inare cross-platform, which gives you the opportunity to run your favourite on all platforms. For this reason, you may appreciate Appimage, Flatpak or even a binary based on something else. You have options for all of this, though it shouldn’t be the main reason for choosing a particular application.

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