Debian version or Flatpak?

Hi, it’s been a while. I made some major changes and hopped a few distros testing/recovering, with some minor data disasters, but it’s all good now.

I finished up on Debian 13 Trixie, which was the plan all along, and now the system is running just like I need. If Debian users or anyone is interested in the backstory, here it is 56% drop in temperature. My Shotcut editing system is now just the way I have always wanted, even though it has an integrated Radeon/Vega iGPU.
Now I am about to install Shotcut on this setup, and want to ask Debian users out there, what is their experience with Debian repo of 25.03.29 or the Flatpak 25.08.16 (without a changelog). Which one should I use and why?
Hope it’s not too OT :grinning_face:

A big problem with repo versions is not getting official Shotcut support because it’s not an official build. Any number of things could go wrong when someone else attempts to build Shotcut, and you may or may not find someone willing to investigate any bugs discovered in a non-official version.

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So, 25.10.31 portable tar it is!

Actually, I see the official build is 25.11.2 - so that is more up to date than Debian or Flatpak.

I installed the package in /opt/Shotcut/Shotcut.app

and the shortcut in /usr/share/applications

Thank you Austin.

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It contains a build fix with respect to bundling libraries that does not affect a package or flatpak.

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