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Debian is one of the distros where flatpaks are most appropriate lol, it's the best way to not have programs that are really old
Adding weird third party repositories that can cause all kinds of issues probably isn't the best idea
tbf, flatpaks are problematic shit noobs tend to appreciate because reasons. That said, beside the fact steam ships its own chroot, I'm a happy sid user and I don't even have this imaginary problem of things being 'very old' sooo ... but I can confirm you shouldn't add weird third party repos or shitty flatpaks :)
It's not just noobs that appreciate flatpak. Flatpak is good all-round.
And the problem of Debian packages being old is very much not imaginary lol. Debian has only just moved beyond Gnome 3.38/Plasma 5.20/kernel version 5.10.
That's ancient. And that's not to mention the other software repos, which are often updated at an even slower pace.
Don't assume that just because you want extremely outdated packages, everyone else must want the same.
I don't mind the old packages (I'm typing from Debian Stable right now). If that's a bother for other people Debian Stable isn't the way to go. Even I wouldn't recommend Stable on a desktop/laptop unless that person knew what they were getting themselves into. I used to run Sid a while back, but didn't want to have to deal with the mild breakage from time to time. Generally speaking it's "stable enough" for most people, especially on a daily driver.
That being said, I have a few flatpaks running, but that's mostly because they're apps that aren't packaged for Debian.
Yeah. And if it works for you, it's good. I have a headless Debian home server running in my house right now.
I'm just saying it's completely valid to not be into Debian because the packages are ancient, just as it's also completely valid to not be into Arch because the packages are too bleeding edge.
Agreed, but I think there are enough flavors of Debian to satisfy someone if they want newer packages without resorting to Flatpak/Snap/etc.
You say "resorting" like using flatpak is awful