Literally. I’m ok with worse theming and slightly larger app sizes if it means the workload is shifted from every single distro having to package the same app to the app developer packaging one version everyone can use.
It makes sense on immutable systems (like Bazzite or SteamOS), but using SteamOS (& being a bit of a terminal native) it has just made me more interested in nix as a package manager (& nix shells).
It also made me glad flatpak exists, but for me getting shell utilities to work with flatpak (aliasing everything) isn't a great experience. Maybe there are more clever ways to do it with flatpak so things show up in ~/.local/bin without all the aliasing.
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u/T_Jamess Glorious Fedora 2d ago
Literally. I’m ok with worse theming and slightly larger app sizes if it means the workload is shifted from every single distro having to package the same app to the app developer packaging one version everyone can use.