There has been a few instances of trying to get an app off of Pop!_Shop only to be met with an extremely out of date app.
I’m no expert, still very new, and I have no idea how the Pop!_Shop functions, but what is the process of getting apps updated? Is there something users can do, or do we just have to wait for the updated version to hit the shop?
Just to add to that, you also have the option of using Flatpak, which already comes installed by default in Pop OS and integrated into Pop Shop. With Flatpak you can usually get a more recent version of the app, but the downside is larger install size.
Flatpak is definitely the way to go if you’re still getting started in your Linux journey.
The reason that flatpak apps are typically more up to date is because they are most often managed by the actual developer of the app. In contrast, the default apps in the Pop shop (which are deb packages, but that’s not super important) are managed and updated by popos itself (and/or Ubuntu/Debian that popos is built on), which is why they’re often slower to update. The developer has little to no day of when these packages are updated, and usually most packages are frozen between major releases of the distro.