everybody in this strange open-source-commercial linux world makes money on the back of somebody/something else. fedora-red hat-ibm / suse / clear linux .. .. et cetera. on the back of gnome .. .. et cetera. that's how "open source" works in these days. big business - with free software.

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and flatpaks of course. they are sandboxed & cross-distro-like. snaps not (try snaps on selinux-based systems ≠ cross-distro-like). even richard brown dreams of a gnome kubic-desktop .. with flatpaks of course:

https://hackweek.suse.com/16/projects/kubic-desktop-aka-sgt-peppers-read-only-hearts-club-band

that's the point, when i give o.s. a 2nd chance. at least, i take another look on it (as an ex-silverblue user).