AppImage isn't a good comparison for a lot of different reasons and I think enough people have summarised that on the internet by now.
I'm really sorry but Joplin is not and will not ever be "objectively" better than Obsidian. SilverBullet is subjectively better than Obsidian though. Note taking is such a heavily opinionated matter that there's no scope for objectivity there.
So it's not "textbook" apartheid, just something close enough, got it
This is just a straight up lie. Flatpaks do share libraries, both as runtimes (as seen even in the screenshot here) and through deduplication between different runtimes and runtime versions. There's usually very little bloat, if any, especially if you use Flatpaks a lot, which you probably should, given the huge number of advantages especially with proprietary apps.
There's also deduplication across the different files. So you could even end up with less overall size over time if you use Flatpaks for everything.
Take your own advice
Why would you want the app devs to make that? The whole problem with distro-specific packages is having to package for multiple formats and it's a painstaking process that really isn't worth any amount of time investment at all. If you're an app developer, you'd much rather just make a universal package and hope that some distro package maintainer packages your app for their distro. That's just basic common sense...
There is so much missing from Gnome that is present in most other DEs and even custom WM setups.
There are also plenty of features that gnome has that kde and other desktops and wms don't have. It's all about tradeoffs and what's acceptable or necessary for you.
Worst case scenario is that you run just those commands in sh. I don't see a problem really. I also like fish's syntax, so it's easy to trade for POSIX compatibility. If you really really must, you could also use an LLM to convert your bash script to fish.
Ever since switching to fish, I've been using the terminal more and more. It's the most intuitive interface I can think of. Now to fix my neovim configuration...
XDG User dirs are cool, i agree. But that's not really the problem here
Well, they aren't even replying to whether the community-developed rclone backend breaks TOS, so don't expect much... but yeah, i pay for Proton and they're good for what they are.
Which isn't a lot of time if we're being honest
dconf editor is kinda like regedit for GNOME apps ig?
No, i think he means the idea that Linux is supposed to substitute Windows 1:1
They're very reliable from my experience
Just checked, you're right about Google. Microsoft does allow you to use any app though. It's funny that the "EEE" Microsoft is less anti-user than the "Don't be evil" Google. But anyway, seeing how Google locks it down, I'm sure there must be others too. So you're right
Which services aren't supported?
It does have automatic Android cloud backups and does support local backups, which also supports backing up to Nextcloud.