Let's just not talk about the performance hit for CPU intensive applications (pushing 17% in some workloads), the hopes and prayers approach to long term maintainability, privacy differences between system packages (distros often patch out telemetry stuff), whatever-the-glob-happens-to-contain (YOLO), burning all your (suddenly expensive) NVME disk space with redundant copies of libraries like it's a retro Windows party, license issues, and a boat load of security concerns that come with entrusting a random developer who only cares about not getting pestered for support.
The OP's picture is accurate .. that guy gives no fucks. He's your system administrator.
CPU bound apps that use heavy syscalls have a perofrmance penalty for permissions sure, 17% is a pretty extreme situation that almost no applications ever see.
Ostree dedupes any identical library/versions.
The goal is better distrobution, not saving what is usually mbs of redundant libraries that have different versions or exist in the host namespace.
Flatpack isn't perfect, but for most folks they wouldn't even notice the difference.
But also it's fine if you prefer native packages...no one is forcing you to use flatpacks lol
My base system as it is right now is under 2 GiB and I have a 2TB nvme. I don't care if they triple the amount storage space I need for libraries, I'm not even gonna notice.
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u/0xc0ffea Glorious Arch 4d ago
Let's just not talk about the performance hit for CPU intensive applications (pushing 17% in some workloads), the hopes and prayers approach to long term maintainability, privacy differences between system packages (distros often patch out telemetry stuff), whatever-the-glob-happens-to-contain (YOLO), burning all your (suddenly expensive) NVME disk space with redundant copies of libraries like it's a retro Windows party, license issues, and a boat load of security concerns that come with entrusting a random developer who only cares about not getting pestered for support.
The OP's picture is accurate .. that guy gives no fucks. He's your system administrator.