In discover I see two versions of Thunderbird. What is the difference between these? [image]

Probably one of those is Fedora Flatpak (packaged by Fedora) and the other is Flathub. If you click one it should show you which is which in the opening page. In terms of which one you should install, I always go with Flathub packages.

I see 6: [image] I’d use BetterBird if I were you.

This is so user unfriendly. You get a mix of rpm and flatpak (from flathub and fedora) plus you get the ESR vs. latest version… How should the average user decide which one is the right one? workstation-wg quality-team kde-team

[image] Gokhan Armagan: Probably one of those is Fedora Flatpak (packaged by Fedora) and the other is Flathub. If you click one it should show you which is which in the opening page. If I enable flathub I get two more. Name Description …

This is why I never use it. Can’t tell what’s what without digging into each one.

What’s the last flatpak one, the one from fedora repo? It’s called “stable” but doesn’t carry a version number.

[image] Steve Flynn: This is why I never use it. Can’t tell what’s what without digging into each one. I solve the problem by running sudo dnf install thunderbird and go with whatever I get from the rpm repo. It has never failed on me.

Ditto. Pretty sure I only open Discover when someone posts a question like this.

[vek@newbox ~]$ flatpak remote-info f fedora fedora-testing flathub [vek@newbox ~]$ flatpak remote-info fedora org.mozilla.Thunderbird Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free and open source email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client ID: org.mozilla.Thunderbird…

[image] Flo: What’s the last flatpak one, the one from fedora repo? It’s called “stable” but doesn’t carry a version number. For the sake of accuracy, net.thunderbird.Thunderbird is the app ID used by Fedora for the release version. Upstream (Flathub) uses org.mozilla.thunderbird for the sam…

Which thunderbird?

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anothermindbomb (Steve Flynn) September 30, 2026, 11:26am 3

I see 6:

I’d use BetterBird if I were you.

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