The take on flatpaks is such an uninformed one. DMGs on MacOS come with all the dependencies bundled in, which make them essentially just as big as the comparable flatpak (minus the shared runtime that gets installed once)

Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output.

Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.

I know the theory but it doesn’t work that way in real life. Files that are 20mb on macOS are GB on flatpaks.

Flatpak is eating storage and bandwidth which are both issue for many users.

That's not the user experience though, the user experience is it says "go to the discover app and install <program>" and they do that and it just works. Downloading a tarball is not the normal way to install stuff on Linux, and given everyone has phones where the standard is "install on the app store", it's hardly some new experience, in fact, it's more natural for normal users.

Why are you in a thread about Linux software if you hate it so much? Just felt like spreading some negativity?

I find it interesting. Linux is very interesting and yes I think it’s fine to say that Linux has many shortcomings and can be extremely buggy.

Do you have to be 100% positive about everything you like ?