Yeah well bazzite was sort of my first real long term use of Linux, it was good for that purpose. Let me mostly just use the machine without needing to be a Linux hacker. I will probably move on to a more simple system after it breaks. It works fine as it is, I can solve many little issues it might have with repos or keys or something. Flatpaks are cool and all that, but some of the software I use like my tethering app, binary decompilers and compilers, and little misc tools aren’t available in flatpaks. Sometimes if something is simple enough I just copy it into the bin folder I can’t imagine that would cause many issues other than not automatically updating.

Using containers is just too much of headache for me rn. I’m usually pretty limited in my time, I work overtime most weeks. I’m often spending hours just trying to get one or a few simple things done in my off time. Fooling with extra complexity quickly just gets out of control. I don’t want to use containers because, it’s not integrated into the system, the file system isn’t unified, it’s tons of extra stuff to learn to essentially gain little to no benefit, and it often breaks more documented ways of doing things, and I rely a lot on documentation and forum posts and chatGPT and stuff to do these things because I’m just not on that level of Linux user yet. Reinstalling an operating system is fairly trivial to me. It’s maybe a day, where adding all the complexity multiplies my inefficiencies over many days.