For me personally, I love it. I bought a pretty large SSD for my gaming PC, the space used by non-game apps is basically irrelevant.

But the convenience? Unmatched. Compatibility is a non-question, it’s virtually impossible to break any app. Everything has exactly what it needs, if I go to make a bug report, my details are 1 line long, “Flatpak version”, I don’t have to consider whether X wants Y python when Z wants 2 versions later, just let each install its own version in its sandbox and update that version when it’s ready to.

Want to try an app? Alright, look up the thing you want on bazaar, install 3 apps that do it, and try them. Effortlessly delete them when you don’t like them, and it’s even cached so that you can one-click reinstall it with your data if you later realize one was your best choice. Deleting something completely cleans it from your system, dependencies and temporary files and all.

Yes, it takes a little bit to understand permissions and such once you need them, but that’s all not nearly as complicated as the problems I learned to solve before flatpaks came along, and Flatseal makes managing that stuff pretty darn straightforward too. Flatpaks are 10/10 easy to work with, and absolutely deserve to become the default way to install Linux applications in the way they have been.

Same, I was looking for inconsistencies in lighting, black/white points, etc, and I think in several cases I picked an image as AI based on details that were a result of photo manipulation and not “real”. I got the same score as you in the end here.

Kinda interesting, somewhat invalidated what I thought this was testing, but it’s an interesting test nonetheless. I may retake this in a few days now that I know it’s comparing AI to photoshop and not “reality”. Would certainly need a different strategy.