> It's a shame to hear that kind of talk coming from the openSUSE world when Zypper did so much to raise the bar for high-level Linux distro package management

> It's a shame to hear that kind of talk coming from the openSUSE world when Zypper did so much to raise the bar for high-level Linux distro package management tools. :( Yeah, I don't think it'll last in the foreseeable future judging by how these distros are jumping on the Flatpak/Snap bandwagon. For these distros, package management might as well be dead. I expect a few distros, such as Alpine Linux and Arch Linux, to remain relatively free from the influence of Flatpak and that's what I'll continue to use on my personal machines.