Right! Time to pushback against these developers who uses Flatpaks, Appimages, Snaps, Electron, etc. We are no longer in the world of doubling performance and memory size. Even more, nowadays people are conscious of the power usage. Time to fight the bloat!
Higher memory consumption as a trade off for developer convenience might be questionable in many cases but here it is to increase USER convenience.
What are developers supposed to ship their apps with? Make packages for every Linux distribution under the sun? Flaktpaks and Appimages solve a real problem. The current alternative is NOT being able to use the specific software at all because you don't have the right version of Ubuntu.
Maybe Guix/Nix are solutions for some of the pain points of traditional package management. And yes, libraries really need to focus on backwards compatibility. In the meantime, AppImage/Flatpack gets the job done. I am not out of luck when my distro does not offer the right package with the right version.
Should have performance indicators with every app - the kids who grew up on the performancelandfill slopes of the Mount Moore would have a hard time explaining away there whatsapp clone needing the same % as a major application.
Yeeh, who enter the plateau, abandon all hope you will get away with leaky abstractions.
Wish the lazy bloat-load was build as architectural pattern into apps. It only installs when you actually use it.
Doubling performance, no. But doubling memory size... kinda. 8-16GB is kind of the baseline now. Laptops with 64GB are increasingly common in certain niches.
This being said, I do see these systems that basically just double down on adding layers for layers' sake as more disruptive than systemd.
