Mass containerization and alternate runtimes cannot possibly be the future of desktop apps on Linux. If this is really the direction it’s going, the future will be so shitty that we’ll all end up back on macOS or Windows.
This posts features great complaints but really shitty reasoning. Very immature perspective on things.
If you are so upset about it, name the perfect alternative, contribute to one, or go make one. This post barely approaches solutions and spends all of it’s time whining about the outcome of technology choices without even touching on what they would change.
There’s more precise criticism in the article. For example, that the “portals” system tries to be transparent to applications instead of exposing an explicit API. Or that maintaining multiple huge runtimes makes it likely you’ll need a lot of storage just to run new apps (contrary to a system like guix/nix where only specific deps would have to be duplicated). Or that the drivers/graphics stack should be part of the OS for consistency, not be bundled with applications. Or that layering many forms of containerization is not sustainable/debuggable.
There’s an entire “Is Flatpak Fixable?” section full of recommendations.
This posts features great complaints but really shitty reasoning. Very immature perspective on things.
If you are so upset about it, name the perfect alternative, contribute to one, or go make one. This post barely approaches solutions and spends all of it’s time whining about the outcome of technology choices without even touching on what they would change.
There’s more precise criticism in the article. For example, that the “portals” system tries to be transparent to applications instead of exposing an explicit API. Or that maintaining multiple huge runtimes makes it likely you’ll need a lot of storage just to run new apps (contrary to a system like guix/nix where only specific deps would have to be duplicated). Or that the drivers/graphics stack should be part of the OS for consistency, not be bundled with applications. Or that layering many forms of containerization is not sustainable/debuggable.
There’s an entire “Is Flatpak Fixable?” section full of recommendations.
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