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  • Native, Containers, Appimages. Flatpak not in a million years.

    I really don’t know how to feel about all the Mint/flatpak supporters. It feels like a swarm of Windows refugees that have no interest in learning about the existing culture.

    Flatpaks, Gnome, KDE, they’re all just bloat. Back in the 90’s, Unix/BSD/Linux were everything that Windows wasn’t. Fast, stable, infinitely flexible. I cherished grepping for Exim config settings in /etc rather than searching through 250 management console tabs for MS Exchange.

    I run Arch and nearly everything I need is available as a package or in the AUR, except for the real niche apps that I can grab via cargo/pip/npm/podman. Occasionally however I find some app I’m interested in and they only support Ubuntu or Flatpak, and I feel like it’s getting worse so it’s not like I can just ignore it.