Michael Horn, on things to do after installing Linux: "So let's go ahead and install Microsoft Edge, just because we can always remove it afterwards. Something you can't do on Windows."
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downsides to flatpak they take up alot of space at first.
snap also has it's downsides.
the fact that a snap package is mainly a squashfs filesystem which is decompressed and the user dires made read and writible says everythng.
it's why you experience slow load times on first launch of sed app like say firefox.
it's because the squashfs image is being decompressed in the backround.
Yeah, the load times for Snaps aren't great, but I can definitely see the advantage of using less disk space. I got turned off of Snaps for a couple of reasons, including Canonical kind of pushing it super hard on Ubuntu and I have other concerns regarding Canonical as an organization.
Personally, I prefer to use Debian over most distros based on it for desktop or servers. My desktop distro of choice is Fedora since it leans more leading edge without being too far ahead like Arch, Fedora Rawhide or Debian Sid. I use Flatpaks on the desktop and only use Snaps on servers where I need Certbot (though, I have been installing as a Python package on some newer servers to have an even smaller footprint).