Meh... i used to install tarballz, hunting for .so files, then RPMs hunting dealing with circular RPM dependencies, then DEBs dealing with unmet dependencies. As I age all that got boring. I hate Snaps because of how intrusive is with the system.
Flatpak brings Linux to what OSX had like 10 years ago. It just works
Regarding download size? Even I, living in a third world country, have an internet connection good enough to not care about download sizes...
Regarding file redundancy. If that is much of a problem for anyone, I'm sure that could be dealt with at the file system layer: hash/detect duplicate files and compact them, then copy on write. Personally, HDD space hasn't been an issue for me on PC or laptops in a long time.
Flatpak finally just work and we have the technology to make it usable. Moreover I argue that flatpak IS the future as those 2 previous points will become more irrelevant as time goes by.
Flatpak brings Linux to what OSX had like 10 years ago. It just works
Regarding download size? Even I, living in a third world country, have an internet connection good enough to not care about download sizes...
Regarding file redundancy. If that is much of a problem for anyone, I'm sure that could be dealt with at the file system layer: hash/detect duplicate files and compact them, then copy on write. Personally, HDD space hasn't been an issue for me on PC or laptops in a long time.
Flatpak finally just work and we have the technology to make it usable. Moreover I argue that flatpak IS the future as those 2 previous points will become more irrelevant as time goes by.