That is a flaw. Flatpak is great where it works but Flatpak doesn't solve all problems, neither does any one solution except os level modification. It can be a last resort by it should be a last resort that works. The layering system could be put together such that you don't get side effects of installing packages like that. It might be tough to fix but that doesn't make it not a flaw.

Sortition has the same benefit.

The strategy is "Never Play Defense".

They know what's going on, they know what they're doing. They just don't care, they like Trump they just can't argue their case and don't care to.

Hitler was explicit that he took inspiration from the US. The way the US treated the native tribes, in particular, was an inspiration to him.

Release! The! Tapes!

Come on, do it. It could have a real impact.

Once you fire up a webpage it'll just dump garbage all over the couch.

It isn't, though. Package layering modifies the install itself. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/getting-started/#_flatpak_command_line

The big problem with the way ostree works is that installing things has side effects. Every item you install with ostree makes all future items slower to install, including regular os updates. This is a significant flaw in the way they designed it and really makes immutable oses less attractive.

Got any recommendations?

He knows what he's doing.

Immutable is fantastic in theory. Where it falls apart is having to basically rebuild the whole distro every time you want to make a change. It should be there your base distro is immutable, then any extra changes go on an additional mutable layer but that would be difficult to set up. (You'd need a package manager like Nixos or something.)

Cops are cops, it seems.