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by elcdodedocle 76 days ago
I understand the frustration. I have the uttermost reverence for distro maintainers and I love distro repos. I like that my OS is a consistent and well thought suite of aligned tools mindfully put together by a collective that knows what they are doing and test that it all fits and plays nice much better than I do. Please stop treating these awesome people like some kind of authoritarian ogres. I am grateful for flatpaks too. I understand that tools seldomly need to be tightly coupled to work together well, and that it does come at a cost, just as sandboxing does. I respect developers who do not package anything else. When I need a flatpak, I install it. Finally, it is also amazing that we have AppImages. Some tools just work perfectly well or well enough with limited integration capabilities in multiple diverse ecosystems. Why does everything have to be installable? So, if I want to use a tool I will get it however the developer decided to distribute it, trust that they have a good reason to do it the way they do it, and if I open my mouth it will be to say thanks, instead of being lame about someone's way of putting an effort for me to get a great product without asking for anything in return not being what I think most convenient. For me.