I tend to avoid Flatpaks if the package is directly available in official Repos or even in an unofficial repo. If I have to download it from the AUR then I will check if a Flatpak version exists or not and install it from there.

Does this mean I won’t need the multilib Arch repo anymore? Or at-least after it has matured enough to not need 32bit stuff?

Is this /s?

No matter how much you protest here, the large unaware population will always elect a politician who is always in limelight for all the wrong reasons (rape, hate speeches, murder, ties with the underworld). And those politicians want to keep these folks poor and unaware as their numbers are huge and it is easy to sway their votes literally one night before an election by giving them 5k inr (~50 usd) cash or a chicken biryani and a beer feast.

You don’t know Indian small-mid businesses lol. They already pirate a lot of stuff. Adobe and Corel are very strict here—if they find out you are using an unlicensed version of their software, they send legal notices to pay a shit ton for the damages and buy the licensed one for a lock-in period before even suing. Most, if not all, give in because there is no way out of this. Yet a lot of them are willing to take this risk as the potential savings are much higher than the losses if caught.

If these businesses get a grey zone free product, they will happily switch. Big corpos will mostly not.

If it comes at parity and businesses start using it, then not only it would be banned but also the dev will be sued to hell for “infringing” their “patents” and “revenue loss” caused because of it.

Why doesn’t the dev rather work on specific features sets on one existing project instead of building half baked fleet of slop.