[jeroenhd]

Linux has definitely come up with the worst solution to DLL hell, but Flatpak solves this problem neatly without dumping huge files all over my disk (and without making me manually create shortcuts for them). It also solves the update problem much better (update applications all at once rather than open them one by one and waiting for the "there's an update, click here to download" popup to show up).

I generally stick to the distro repos exactly because external software is a pain to run, with Flatpak as a fallback for applications not packaged in any repo. More and more third party applications are being compiled statically, though, which has solved a lot of issues for me when it comes to these externally managed programs (though it also causes annoying security issues).