you can install rpm but its discouraged, the reason are your update will apply slower and you introduce a chance for more conflict
flatpak are pretty safe because the manifest are hosted publicly
all chromium browser are kinda crippled in flatpak but will function normally (i think) its mostly the sandboxing feature that is crippled afaik, you can use layered browser in distrobox as an alternative
I’m new to Linux, so I’m unfamiliar with distrobox and other concepts. I recall that when I had Fedora, I could install the official packages using the .rpm package, but not on Bazzite?
Idk, but it bothers me that the flatpak version of Google Chrome isn’t maintained by Google itself. I prefer getting the software from the company, so I know it’s verified.
And, Brave is advising against using their flatpak version because it’s broken. So, I’ll follow their advice.