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My view point is flatpaks are good now and there's such a huge library I'd rather use that.
I use debian 13 because it's a good base, recent kernel and apt has a ton of good packages for utilities and it has security patches regularly. You have to have a secure and up to date system and that's where debian shines. If you update every week on arch there's a likelihood something breaks.
In a perfect world linux all those 30 something years ago when it was taking off would've adopted something similar to the nix file system and nix pkgs. Where everything is immutable, everything is configurable, everything is reproducable.
Instead linux decided to go the dependency route with FHS.
So in a second perfect world, all we can do is use the latest stable distro that is the most well polished in terms of package count, and use flatpak.