bester69 wrote:you'll get used to it..
No, I won't.
I don't mind appimage, those are pretty tight. But if I layer an OS and install a flatpack or snap only to find its layer is now larger than the core OS, no, that's obesity. Reminds me of the days dll's only to see them evolve to many of the same name with differing contents scattered everywhere.
I'm simpler than you, so I don't respond to shininess. Meld isn't far behind in Debian and I use it often. Btw, bullseye is working well...Webmail works well enough for me in the default firefox-esr. Kodi is not nearly what I like, so I built my own mpv setup for a mutli-tuner dvr -still running on a Stretch, it will be on bullseye and better in a few weeks. It's sister mpv-image helped eliminate all other media viewers, no vlc, ristretto, feh, etc. I prefer the windows vm to take up the slack for what debian can't do. Why build a pig when you can simply invite a guest over, the mother of all pigs. And as mentioned elsewhere qemu-img substitutes all things backup.
Btw, thanks for the goodvibes reference, I'm going to try that.
Basically, I believe snap and flatpack could lead to laziness and audit looseness. They are in no way comparable to the systemd change, even though systemd does have some 'windows' logic to it... Appimages are not to far off a static deb, like a deadbeef or avidemux, that are not all that fat. Still, this 'windows' thinking isn't good in my opinion. A 'store' is outright blasphemy as far as I'm concerned. A maintained repository is a linux strong point and is not synonymous to a 'store'. The day synaptic turns into a webapp with full page of pretty animated ads and a logon field, I quit. I could just go vertical with bullseye for the next decade, so I expect to escape the trap.