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For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release
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And universal compatability. One repo, for all distros. That's a big plus too!
Until it doesn't work. There's a lot of subtlety, and at some point you'll have to match what the OS provide. Even containers are not "run absolutely anywhere" but "run mostly anywhere".
That doesn't change the point, of course; software that are dependent on the actual kernel/low level library to provide something will be hard to get working in unexpected situations anyway, but the "silver bullet" argument irks me.
Everything is flawed, there is no silver bullet. But again, it's still a massive improvement over what we had previously.
Great... Now, you just need to convince the big distros to do that... Easy!!!!111
Well, that's the neat part. We don't need to do that because what Flatpak does, doesn't matter for them. People can just install Flatpak in their system and they have access to everything. I realise for system components it's a different story, but that's not the use case, it's for applications.
Edit: typo.
Thats... the point of flatpak.
That's called having just one distro.