My problem with flatpak is that the underlying runtime has a limited lifespan. I used the Sublime Text 3 flatpak for many years, and it was deprecated a few months ago because the runtime it was using was no longer supported. This caused people to update the flatpak to Sublime 4, which is good, but I only have a license for 3. In the end I just downloaded the binary for 3 from their website, and it still just worked. Flatpak still doesn't save you from bitrot.

> Flatpak uses shared stable runtimes that are the same everywhere and don't take up space more than once.

https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/disk-usage...

Also flatpak runtimes are NOT stable, they do nonsense like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1pwgdwb/gpu...

> Snap is the same thing but worse

IIRC Snap relies heavily on AppArmor for sandboxing, so on anything non-Ubuntu the sandboxing is non-existent.

There's a project called "anylinux appimages" that aims to make the most compatible appimages. They also use DwarFS for faster opening and smaller file sizes.

See: https://pkgforge-dev.github.io/Anylinux-AppImages/

Yup. After almost 20 years, I have had enough of their crap. All of my new machines are getting Debian. Can’t wait until I am free of Ubuntu.