Neato. I have a strategy now for messing around.

Thank you! This is just my way of laughing at the situation. I am definitely learning some new skills like data recovery and critical thinking.

I shall try!!

I may have remembered the details incorrectly!

Was it the name they were trying to preserve? I guess that is a trifle also.

I am glad that the startup times have improved, that bodes well for future startup times. Using up more storage really is what makes it suck for everyone. I thought that it was more efficient, since I see a lot of .platform, and I assumed those are libraries shared across flatpak apps that use those dependencies.

I am almost sure AppImage has the same problem? I don't know, people do rated that better though.

I like this take. I am reading up on how flatpak works, and what seems to be most important is including the dependencies needed to run an application, regardless of what the system has, which is great.

I still need to try out Gentoo one day.... but it seems like Nixos is the new Gentoo?

I am hoping that is something that goes away in time, but who knows the future. If it sucks now, it may not be worth it now.

Yeah, every universal solution seems to have problems that are major deal breakers.

I see your point, and I agree. No need to spend resources just because we have them.

Sandboxing is definitely a benefit, but alas as I am learning I have no control of it's permissions, so that can potentially go wrong.

I have been burned by the AUR so many times. It is not the perfect endless repository people advertise it to be.

Great explanation and rationale for using Flatpaks! I hope others with questions see this.

I understand how people may be annoyed by the redundancy of every app packaging their own lib, but I swear those are measured in kilobytes, and people tend to be so obsessively minimalist it is a non-issue. Then again, minimalist are probably compiling their software.

I briefly considered getting into Fedora Silverblue, and I still may for this very purpose.