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This is pretty sick. Not just flatpaks but easily install any application, using apt or dnf package managers, or deb or rpm files, in a container with a simple syntax. Wow. Wrap a GUI around it and this may be a winning formula for an easy and stable Linux desktop.
They are already doing it. Their forked gnome software takes deb packages too.
That's not mentioned in the text.
Are you speaking of distrobox/toolbox? Which is available on any linux system.
That's not mentioned in this specific blog post, but that's always been one of Vanilla OS's defining features, it's "apx" package manager to install those various types of packages
It's even using Distrobox actually, but the point is to make it simpler to install packages for those contrainers, with the user not worrying as much about managing the individual containers, and not having to memorize the specific commands for each individual distro's package manager
Basically, like the rest of Vanilla OS, the point isn't that you can't do this stuff elsewhere, it's that it's trying to make it easier to do it