With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we’re going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.
Linux has, historically, been quite messy when it comes to software distribution. We have various distribution-specific packaging formats like .deb (Debian / Ubuntu), .rpm (Fedora) and the list just goes on and on. Canonical also went their own way with Ubuntu for the likes of Snap, but the real winner is going to end up being Flatpak and the main Flathub store.
Who doesn’t like bloated dependencies, it’s like you get more software per software
Luckily SSD prices are going down. \S
In fairness, I have enough to value more the convenience than the extra size. Might not agree if I had a small drive