Flameshot is 3.6MB on disk according to flatpak info org.flameshot.Flameshot

ublue co-maintainer here. I go over a bunch of the reasons here: https://www.ypsidanger.com/homebrew-is-great-on-linux/

Namely we needed a way to complement Flatpak and brew was a natural fit. It's an ecosystem reason not a technical one. It has everything we need and a good deal of Bluefin's target audience are already using it on mac. So for us it's an easier lift to just add homebrew and move on to larger problems.

Plus it's nice that they're working with the openssf to secure the supply chain pipeline, and it's nice that everything is in github where we can inspect it, use the same tooling we use for the OS, etc.

https://github.com/ublue-os/main/blob/main/packages.json

Docs for future reference: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=868

My Ubuntu installs are extremely reliable, both on desktops and servers.

Probably because you're an experienced user, not everyone has the same skillset.

Flatcar linux (this is what I use for my NAS/homeserver) and CoreOS are both good.

edit: OpenSUSE has microOS: https://microos.opensuse.org/

I am unsure of the status of KDE offhand, I'm getting a bit north of 5 hours when on a plane and on wifi.

I would love to find some script or tool that can just grab all my logs and chart them out so people can share their results in a more reliable manner because I suck at keeping track of this kind of stuff by hand.

I work on this image and daily drove it for a while. It's basically Matt Hartley's TLP power recommendations out of the box (we collaborated on this, he's the Linux support person at Framework)

I have an intel FW13 and now prefer the newer gnome-power-profile that we ship instead of the TLP-based recommendations. It has all the latest patches from upstream and it works great on both AMD and Intel systems. I don't personally have an AMD Framework but we have enough people using it to know that the gnome-power-profile setup is awesome thanks to AMD's contributions to gnome-power-profile.

Ideally a Framework image shouldn't need to exist --- to make things more complicated Fedora is considering switching to tuned which is another, third power manager which should unify the stack. Universal Blue is currently testing this in the bazzite:testing branch of that custom image and we're hoping to get that feedback back to Framework. Hope this helps!

the package entropy over time will get me the very dependency issues that Flatpak wants to solve.

You can declare your distroboxes so that they get created regularly from scratch instead of upgrading in place: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/distrobox-assemble.md

That way the entropy never hits you. Then use the Prompt terminal https://gitlab.gnome.org/chergert/prompt to make it just part of your terminal ootb.