> I'm not a friend of flatpaks and similar concepts, either. For me,
> it's not memory use, but the shifting of power from a distrubution
> model to single applications. I find that makes software less "free".
Indeed. These end up reproducing the black-box model "it just works".
If you like that, then you presumably don't care what's inside the box.
It might as well be iOS, Windows, Oracle, ...
Stefan