You have my sincere condolences, buddy.

If only there was some sort of movement of gracious people willing to donate their expertise and time to write software and allow the users to fully control it by giving away the source code. That’d fix everything!

Yeah, that did nothing to sell me on the concept, but if there’s one great thing about open source it is that there’s no single right way of doing things. If this is what you want for your system(s), you get to do you.

And those of us who run on cobbled together systems composed of other people’s e-waste get to not waste massive amounts of system resources we don’t have on abstractions ten layers deep. I can live with the potential for occasional transient system instability if it means I can run my base desktop system without involvement of flatpak, snap or - Jesus Christ - docker.

KDE Linux is an “immutable base” operating system that does not include a traditional package manager. Apps can be installed from Flatpak, Snap, or AppImages.

Oh, wow. Okay. I can see why some people might want something like that, but I’m empathically not one of them.

I always keep two the in rucksack I bring for shopping. I will not fail again!

…I’m inclined to let this one go.

Nice! Good job, Mozilla!