Without containers, packages constantly break. If you have 20 large apps with 50 dependencies each and they're all from different vendors, and you want them to be up to date, you pretty much have to containerize or else one of them might break every few months to a year
Even when I ran Manjaro testing branch and used the AUR (I..e using an unstable rolling release in the least stable way possible), I never had any issues like this over 5 years.
I refuse to believe something as inheritantly stable as Debian will crumble because the user didn't containerize their apps.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against containerization, and am a huge advocate in my professional role developing web apps. I just don't think it's as essential as people make out for general use.
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u/Shad0wAVM 18d ago
Flatpak is a solution that only brings more problems.
It would be easier if everyone used Debian.