DidacticDumbass

Trying to purge orphan dependencies is absolutely annoying. Talk about wasting space!

Your knowledge of Unix systems is incredibly powerful, and I highly respect that. You are in control of your system, which is the ultimate goal of personal computing. It is even more powerful that your mental models are reflected in your system. That is super cool, I hope to get their some day.

I am also very happy you enjoy trying out new technologies, and don't have the grumpy jadedness of just using what you always use.

For me I thoroughly enjoy learning new skills that unlocks the power of all my many computers, and put them to use. Computing should be fun and empowering, and too often people deprive themselves of fun.

Yeah, interactions with software outside the sandbox can be annoying, but I am glad it is flexible enough to overcome those problems.

Love it! I am starting to feel good about this then.

Nice!

Fun use case! It feels like hell experimenting with different DEs because the installs mess with each other. If only they were isolated somehow...

Great! I knew it was possible. That is one less argument against it.

Thank you for writing all this! Innovation is absolutely necessary not just in Linux, but all computing. People are comparing this to Window installs, and honestly it is probably more similar to MacOS installs. Yet, the difference is that the packages are audited by a community, and are not proprietary wildcards that might bite you in unexpected ways. Flatpaks are an options, not a replacement.

Dealing with software that does not work first try is a loathsome experience. Many people here are wearing their gray colored classes, opinions influenced by decades of tinkering, and are forgetting about the curse of knowledge.

If we want more people to adopt linux, Flatpaks absolutely help.

Lastly, saying image-based reminds my a lot about Smalltalk, which is nice. I like the idea of having hot-swappable operating systems to switch between that have all the work isolated in that image. Great for experimentation, and perhaps security.

I will definitely be checking out Fedora Silverblue. Going to download and make a VM for that now.

That is a fair take. The universal package systems seem to disregard space outright, which is unfortunate.

Directories are probably the most offensive thing about all package management. Developers are happy to throw their files in .hidden directories anywhere they please. No real standards for that.

I don't know what principles people are adhering to when it comes to the ideal computing environment, but having to deal with the minutia of installation problems to meet some kind of criteria is just not interesting to me either.

I have been using Linux exclusively for maybe 8 years now? I just never dived to deeply into power user territory. I can get around okay, and am comfortable with the terminal and all that, I was just never interested in spending too much time trying to customize everything.

For a period I was obsessed with alternative operating systems. I read that Haiku is basically ready for evey day use. I wonder how Redox is coming along...

Anyways, I hope flatpaks keep working.

Weird. That is unfortunate, and I hope it was just an ugly bug that unfortunately effected you.