mrbigmouth502

It had its place in 2015. It was my introduction to Arch-based distros. Nowadays, I use EndeavourOS.

I like Flatpaks. They integrate fairly well, they can be used on a variety of different distros, you can install them without root permissions, and they’ll often “just work”, even when the same apps installed through your system’s normal repos have issues.

However, if they have one significant drawback, it’s that they’re a pig on resources. They use a lot of storage, and when you’re on a resource-constrained system, they’ll use more RAM and generally run slower than apps installed from the normal repos. (inb4 anyone says “unused RAM is wasted RAM.”)

You have a point, but most normies aren’t even aware that an operating system is just a piece of software their computer runs that can be swapped out for a different piece of software. They see the OS as an integral, immutable part of the system… which of course is totally wrong, but that’s seriously how they see it.

The people you describe are a step higher on the food chain, so to speak. They definitely exist, and I think they make up the majority of people who are getting into Linux, but let’s not forget how little the average person knows or cares about technology works.

I watched a video about those the other day. You can’t just slap Windows or whatever on one; you have to use Linux with a specific patched kernel in order to use them. Even then, there are severe graphical issues with Unity games, and you’re not getting the full performance of a PS5 since these APUs are cut down to a degree.

Here’s the video in question: https://youtu.be/_zbw_A9dIWM