[ChocolateGod]

> package everything into the image" projects

But Flatpak does not do this. It consists of runtimes that usually contain the most of what applications needed, and are updated separately from the application itself.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Yes, flatpak does do that; its base images only have the basics, leaving apps to bring the rest of their own libraries/dependencies.

[ChocolateGod]

that's not everything which was the original comment, the Freedesktop runtime is generally enough for 90% of applications.