I mean, that is not how it works? Sure there are a couple ms difference in latency but if you have that large of a speed difference it is more likely a routing or configuration issue. Pacman is 1 packet at a time by default on arch, but every procedure tells you to change that if possible.

Also your government is not the most open one when it comes to internet traffic, maybe they filter pacman more than apt?

Selling a 2013 pc for profit means scamming someone, especially counting the time you already invested. Just sain…

Congrats, you found the only debian that breaks regularly: testing

You can file a bug report and then install something that does not require you to debug early boot issues, like debian 13 or if you really want a rolling release arch or tubleweed.

My question is: why do you want the “smoothest brains” on linux? That won’t happen until OEMs are selling hardware with linux preinstalled, which they do on chromeos and android btw.

IMO blind adoption for the sake of it brings no benefit

I don’t like flatpack for the exact reason of this thread. The serious distros already do quite a good job in orchestrating their libs and other packages so that all works together.

Flatpack in theory is supposed, when well configured, to have little niche environments for some packages to work sandboxed and with their little special dependency chain.

In practice the knowledge and fiddling necessary to have this work correctly is akin to do it directly and safely in the main environment. People are encouraged to use flatpack but it is not a “just works” installer, unlike the default package manager of any serious distro.