It destroys the beautiful and carefully cultivated ecosystem of distributed packages that has been the bedrock of Linux for decades. They’re bloated, often not quite as sandboxed as claimed, have created packaging chaos, and assume availability of system services that may not be there.
I’m relatively new to Linux. I honestly don’t see what the problem is.
It destroys the beautiful and carefully cultivated ecosystem of distributed packages that has been the bedrock of Linux for decades. They’re bloated, often not quite as sandboxed as claimed, have created packaging chaos, and assume availability of system services that may not be there.
All of this is true and precisely zero normies care about any of it.
The fact that I can put my
idiotsfamily on any modern distro and tell them to use the app store alone makes flatpaks king of the app management