DidacticDumbass

Thank you for saying this! The negativity here has been jarring. I understand preferences, but no reason to be mean about them.

I wanted to stay with Arch awhile back but I kept messing up the install of Nvidia drivers in like every distro, so I just have a lot of apprehension. Maybe it is better now. Still, I am in a good place distro wise.

Emacs the portable lisp machine that can do virtually everything. That must be so fun.

That is a good deal. I was briefly under the impression that those were not accessible, but that would be totally against the principles of everything Linux is about. So permissions set by the developer are just their biased defaults, nothing permanent.

Honestly, it is an extra step that adds complexity. Life is good when you don't need it.

That is a great consideration that I have not looked into in awhile. It seems to be the ultimate third, or perhaps second, solution for getting software to just work. I will look into Appimagelauncher, and try out that version is native or flatpak fails me somehow.

Yeah, user submitted packages are such a risk sometimes.

That is so strange. I think people are underestimating how important up-to-date packages are for certain kinds of workflows, and short of reinstalling everything onto a rolling distro, the only sane solution is something like Flatpak, or directly installing every new binary as it comes out, which can suck and does not guarantee having all dependencies.

For sure. I think I rolling distros are great, and I may consider it in the future. Right now Linux Mint is amazingly solid for me, and has evaporated any interest for experimentation, because I have had literally 0 problems, and it magically takes care of my Nvidia card.

I hope you find the distro you are looking for!

I am glad that the startup times have improved, that bodes well for future startup times. Using up more storage really is what makes it suck for everyone. I thought that it was more efficient, since I see a lot of .platform, and I assumed those are libraries shared across flatpak apps that use those dependencies.

I am almost sure AppImage has the same problem? I don't know, people do rated that better though.

I like this take. I am reading up on how flatpak works, and what seems to be most important is including the dependencies needed to run an application, regardless of what the system has, which is great.

I still need to try out Gentoo one day.... but it seems like Nixos is the new Gentoo?

I am hoping that is something that goes away in time, but who knows the future. If it sucks now, it may not be worth it now.

Yeah, every universal solution seems to have problems that are major deal breakers.

That seems to be the running theme, the defaults for the sandbox seem to be wrong for some people and there is no easy way to change them.

Also, I am sure I would like Arch, my problem is that I was using Manjaro, which is the distro I originally fell in love with and basically converted me to using it full time, but a long time ago. Now it sucks.

Anyways, that is the best, official Arch repos.

Are they related to PPAs in any way? It seems like anything Canonical does to improve package management ends up sucking.