I'm not sure it could even work. PIA needs to integrate deep enough into the system that flatpaks would add more problems without really solving any. It needs root permissions and the ability to directly change your network configuration and access the tuntap kernel module, all of which is somewhat dependant on the distro.
We are already packaging most of the dependencies we need in the app itself, like ruby, nwjs, openssl, openvpn and the likes. None of the incompatibilities the PIA app has would be solved by flatpak because in the end apart from running the GUI we also need to mess around with /etc/resolv.conf, /run/resolvconf, call systemd-resolved over DBus, open /dev/net/tun , configure the tun+ interface that gets created, change your routing table. I haven't checked, but I seriously doubt flatpak or Snaps abstracts any of those away.
Ia m also interested in a universal pia-client for Linux on Flatpak. Neverware Cloudready are now supporting Flatpak apps. It would make installation on Cloudready devices a breeze.
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We are already packaging most of the dependencies we need in the app itself, like ruby, nwjs, openssl, openvpn and the likes. None of the incompatibilities the PIA app has would be solved by flatpak because in the end apart from running the GUI we also need to mess around with /etc/resolv.conf, /run/resolvconf, call systemd-resolved over DBus, open /dev/net/tun , configure the tun+ interface that gets created, change your routing table. I haven't checked, but I seriously doubt flatpak or Snaps abstracts any of those away.