How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
I mean if the apps are not maintained, they wouldnt work well as distro packages too, would they?
Not really. It’s actually pretty common for simpler, unmaintained apps to get small changes in each distro made by the distro maintainers to stay compatible with their current library versions. There’s nobody doing that on Flathub.
Probably, but I guess thats the lack of “it has to be updated”. Just as distro maintainers do, flatpak maintainers or contributors can do as well, as its often pretty easy.
Sure, they can, and yeah it is pretty easy, but people have lives. They move on. A distro always has someone checking to make sure things aren’t broken. On Flathub it won’t even break. It’ll just waste drive space and start giving users annoying error messages, and there if the maintainer isn’t interested in maintaining it anymore the only option for doing anything about it is to fork the whole project, and who’s going to do that for something that isn’t even really broken?
