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You can use almost* all applications regardless of desktop environment, when you install them they’ll just pull in all their needed dependencies by themselves (which won’t include the full blown DE but just toolkit libraries and other platform components), be it the standard distro package manager or Flatpak
*almost, because sometimes, but very rarely, they depend on some DE specific feature, maybe some Freedesktop portal or a specific Keyring
You can use almost* all applications regardless of desktop environment, when you install them they’ll just pull in all their needed dependencies by themselves (which won’t include the full blown DE but just toolkit libraries and other platform components), be it the standard distro package manager or Flatpak
*almost, because sometimes, but very rarely, they depend on some DE specific feature, maybe some Freedesktop portal or a specific Keyring