Yep. It settles down as soon as you have more Flatpaks installed. But yes. Flatpaks require more memory and disk space and fixes in private libraries are not f

Yep. It settles down as soon as you have more Flatpaks installed. But yes. Flatpaks require more memory and disk space and fixes in private libraries are not fixed by a friendly package maintainer for all packages. I use native packages from Arch for most stuff and for new hot or weird stuff Flatpak. Especially for Closed-Source weird stuff. I prefer most - if not all - handle by native packages because that is a core feature of Linux. But there will be always others for reasons. For example plugins, Vim relies here mostly on Vimplug. Steam is thing I need to accept but itself a candidate for Flatpak (currently I prefer the native package). And to be precisely, Meson is also a package-manager for C/C++ developers. PS: I also use Flatpaks when otherwise many unusual dependencies are involved. That one application using Qt? Flatpak. And vice versa some applications which doing well move from Flatpak to native package (Marker did that). PPS: GNOME-Software does a good job in handling native packages, Flatpak and LVFS at the same time. I use mostly pacman, flatpak and fwupd. But sometimes I need the captains approach “Linux. Make it so.”.