One of the criticisms people have with containerizing their desktop apps is the "insane amount of space for their environment" that people think it requires. That's a direct quote from a reddit post on the topic from today.
Let's have a look
Today I'll compare two desktops, one will be
Flatpaks aren’t huge at all. This is a debunked myth. I can’t recommend reading this article enough.
The tested distributions were Fedora Silverblue (which is a Linux kernel + some Flatpaks) and Fedora Workstation. Neither will match your experience because they’re not Arch.
How many versions of Gnome and KDE do I need, just run it on whatever’s the latest.
That’s how you get crashes, non-starting programs, and freezes. Very few projects put in the kind of backwards compatibility you need for a five year program to just launch on the latest version, especially when major versions have been released in the mean time.
The tested distributions were Fedora Silverblue (which is a Linux kernel + some Flatpaks) and Fedora Workstation. Neither will match your experience because they’re not Arch.
That’s how you get crashes, non-starting programs, and freezes. Very few projects put in the kind of backwards compatibility you need for a five year program to just launch on the latest version, especially when major versions have been released in the mean time.