I don't think it's a big deal, while libSDL is. If you dynamically linked to libSDL, you'd have to tell users "find your libSDL package (probably not called lib

I don't think it's a big deal, while libSDL is. If you dynamically linked to libSDL, you'd have to tell users "find your libSDL package (probably not called libSDL), install it, and then hope it's new enough / no bugs / etc. All the usual issues with dynamically linking to libraries that aren't under your control. Flatpak is "We use the flatpak format, if you don't already have it, go to https://flatpak.org/setup/ https://flatpak.org/setup/ and press your distro icon". Much more user friendly, and the hope is that flatpak becomes the standard way to distribute linux apps in the future anyways. Fedora already preinstalls flatpak, hopefully ubuntu and debian will follow (although that's unlikely since ubuntu has snap).