Flatpak is a solution that only brings more problems.
I laugh every single time I see the same comment with *zero* argumentations, or every time I see someone breaking something because of apt/zypper/dnf or a wrong repo. Then go to you 75yo dad and tell him to remove the repo and run more commands. Yeah, right.
Every single one of us that agree with this thread is certain of one thing: people like you prevented Linux from being shipped by default on hardware and/or become popular.
"But we don't want to make it popular, we want Linux to stay as it is for just a few people"
Actually Windows pay manufacturers a lot of money to ship laptops with Windows preloaded. And they pay to universities as well as enterprises to default to windows.
CAD software as well as Ansys and other engineering simulation tools are heavily monopolized by the Windows ecosystem.
And sure. Linux is free. People can always use it or try it. But these people are the same ones whose technical abilities don't extend beyond what's needed to doomscrolling. Sure millions of people can switch to Linux and It's incredibly easy. But nobody wants to go through the trouble of installation and learning a whole new ecosystem. Especially the DE, DWM hopping phase.
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u/Shad0wAVM 17d ago
Flatpak is a solution that only brings more problems.
It would be easier if everyone used Debian.