[TriLUG] release format for commercial project

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

Hey folks,

We're about ready to release testing versions of our Business Bookkeeping
product to compete with QuickBooks.

Currently I'm building a .deb, .rpm, and .pacman. (x64/amd64 only, no arm64
yet for win or linux, but the macOS build supports arm64 and Intel)

Flatpak works, but building it is a clunky process.  Everything seems to
install and work if you install it for the system, but the icon doesn't
show up, and installing it with `flatpak --user` is confusing.

How important is flatpak to people?  We probably won't release to Flathub
even if we build a flatpak.

I don't really want to do Snap, and appimage doesn't seem right for our use
case, since we are using an embedded Postgresql database, but I'm willing
to be convinced otherwise.

Building for Alpine seems like a huge pain, and it's a small user base,
even by Linux standards.

How much effort should I put into flatpak, and should I be considering
other options besides the 3 I mentioned?

Thanks!

-Wes