Oh, don't get me wrong - Flatpak is definitely better in a lot of ways than Snap or AppImage. Just let's not pretend that it doesn't eat a lot of space, because

Oh, don't get me wrong - Flatpak is definitely better in a lot of ways than Snap or AppImage. Just let's not pretend that it doesn't eat a lot of space, because it does. It does not scale linearly with number of apps because of deduplication, sure, but you still can easily get the runtimes alone to consume more space than your whole underlying OS with a full set of apps installed natively, and for little benefit - Flatpak makes it unreasonably hard for users to switch the app runtime to a newer one even it it's perfectly compatible and could instantly free gigabytes of disk space. I don't think app distribution should be dominated by "app store" type solutions; distro repos are an important part of the system too. But there's definitely a use case for "app stores" too and Flatpak fills that niche pretty well, although it still has some really annoying details to sort out before it can actually be as useful as it should be. Thankfully, these issues are mostly about the frontend - the backend seems rather solid already, which is great, so maybe it's just a matter of time until better frontends appear.