On smartphones people are used to package managers already. Imagine everyone had to download the executables for every update for each app on their phone, going to their website downloading and such. That's basically how Windows works. Such a Stone Age.

flatpak based arch distro with no traditional package manager, just a "store" gui app

"In KDE Linux, we build the base system out of Arch packages, but freeze the contents and take responsibility for the result being functional; we don’t offload responsibility onto the user."

Is this the same that Manjaro does?

Pretty interesting, kudos to them for building a different system and not yet another distro. The end result of having a ton of pre-installed software in the hope that it covers your hardware and workflows makes it a pass for me as I'm all about being lightweight and modular, but it does seem like an almost perfect grandma distro.

Honestly this is basically a non-gaming Bazzite using Arch as the base instead of Fedora Atomic, which is technically mutable. I've been trying it out and maybe I should give distrobox a whirl for some things. Overall I've been happy with it.