DidacticDumbass

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.

Whoa! Distrobox looks cool! Did this come out on Android first? Seems like something I used to have fun with.

Damn, there are so many cool software I have never even seen in passing. I mean, I guess anything is possible. Hah.

I admit to only having naive user knowledge of flatpaks being an alternative. I am learning a lot today, which is why I asked.

As far as my comment goes, I was thinking about the fuss over systemD, but that is an entirely separate problem I am probably also not equipped to converse about either.

I bet your wall gets a lot of attention.

Man, no one's got time for anything.

That is unreal. I had no idea it can get that bad. Makes no sense, honestly.

I am sorry you are in digital hell.

No real solution but to change distros, but that is also a crappy thing to suggest.

I hope it gets better for you.

Yeah, I mean, for me it is only a few choice GUI applications that I use flatpaks for.

Still, it is clearly not an optimal solution.

I think that is what is pretty cool about them, that you can have both versions with no problems. Also, of course if the flatpak is giving me problems, I just uninstall it and use the package manager or something else.

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

If you find it please link it. I would love to read it. I think I am happy with my setup, and Flatpaks make it possible.

It seem that whatever problems Flatpaks may have, due to sandboxing, is truly isolated. I think as a non-power user, I do not have strong opinions about any kind of technology, I just enjoy the magic of things working without effort on my part. I will dive deeper as my needs change, but my needs are kind of simple too.

Yeah, it seems like all this convergence of convenience is muddying the linux waters... then again it has never been that clean.