> I have a handful of apps and 3 flatpak runtimes on my phone right now and that's only because I'm the latter (and have to be because of 32GB eMMC). I mean, y

> I have a handful of apps and 3 flatpak runtimes on my phone right now and that's only because I'm the latter (and have to be because of 32GB eMMC). I mean, yes Flatpak will use more disk space than everything being packaged with the distros native package format, although in larger amounts you get a better ratio. This is the trade off that has to be paid, Linux has no stable userspace ABI like Windows (so, Microsoft doesnt need to ship multiple versions of a dll), it's already the norm in the server space with containers, where it's been extremely successful. Flatpak goes a step further than OCI by having native deduplication due to OSTree (although there is push to get this on servers too) Do I think the trade off is outweighed by the advantages? Yes, absolutely. I have used Fedora for 10 years (currently using uBlue/Silverblue) and Flatpak makes installing things like Discord, Slack, Steam etc 10x easier on Fedora than it's ever been (partially due to no or outdated rpms).