&gt; I would prefer less app-ification, more package management.<p>I would argue for the opposite: One problem with linux is that you can&#x27;t run untrusted software without it getting the same access as the user. That&#x27;s exactly what the appification is.<p>I see package managers as a source of some problems of linux: Package maintainers are a unneeded middleman between the writers of the software and you, package managers interact with the whole system, scattering files around the whole filesystem and running scripts as root when installing&#x2F;uninstalling packages.
Applications being files&#x2F;folders that can be installed&#x2F;uninstalled with cp&#x2F;rm seems way more unixy to me.