I don't think they are. Ideally I think people would use: - Flatpaks for one or two applications they deeply care about and use all day (need to have full cont

I don't think they are. Ideally I think people would use: - Flatpaks for one or two applications they deeply care about and use all day (need to have full control) - Pypi, npm, etc. for development libraries (again, you need more control and need to be able to use different versions from different projects) - Your distro's package manager for the 95% remaining. You might not care as much about the remaining 95%, but you still need them and want them to be reliable. If anything this will push people towards stabler distros (think debian stable instead of Arch). Edit: Pypi, not pypy