Convenience, time saved.

Yup. Go back a version of xfreerdp. Done.

sudo dnf downgrade xfreerdp (or whst ever is the name of the package)

What the fuck are you on about? Jesus christ, we get ragebait in here too now?

Know your usecases. Thats it. Linux isn’t hard if you do.

But no, let me recommend the jet engine service manual to my 6 year old that is learning to read. You’re going to have a bad time.

For the record, since this post and most comments irked me, arch is fine. I’m using arch on my workstation/personal rig for years. Fedora on the laptop because I need a stable work thing. Alpine VMs on the homelab because it needs light and stable.

USECASES!

I second the fedora kde spin. Been using it for years on my work laptops. Hasnt failed me yet.

This is such a superficial take.

Flatpaks have their use-case. Alpine has its use-case as a small footprint distro, focused on security. Using flatpaks would nuke that ethos.

Furthermore, they need those servers to build their core and base system packages. There is no distro out there that uses flatpaks or appimages for their CORE.

Any distro needs to build their toolchain, libs and core. Flatpaks are irrelevant to this discussion.

At the risk of repteating myself, flatpaks are irrelevant to Alpine because its a small footprint distro, used alot in container base images, containers use their own packaging!

Furthermore, flatpaks are literal bloat, compared to alpines’ apk packages which focus on security and minimalism.

Edit: Flatpak literally uses alpine to build its packages. No alpine, no flatpaks. Period

Flatpaks have their use. This is not that. Check your ignorance.

I did something very similar, spent about a year on fedora … 33? then discovered “my preferred distro” and never looked back.

Thing is that everyone finds their place with a distro and settles for as long as it suits their needs. Then, you might move on, you might not. Its just an OS, a means to an end. Use what you need, then use something else, no need to go to the doctor for hopping headaches :)