configs-scripts VS apt

You can't combine them, and if you try, you're almost certainly going to have a bad time. But on a BTRFS file system, you can deduplicate all the data between them. I run that script on my own setup, and the space savings from so doing are significant.

Prefix deduplication has massive space savings potential. I made a script that you can run periodically that handles running duperemove on installed Proton versions and the compatdata folder for BTRFS filesystems: vacuum-steamplay

I also dislike the spacious padding that GTK tends to use. I have tweaks that I use for GTK3 gtk.css that make the UI more compact. We can almost certainly still do that here, we just need to sit down with the Adwaita demo and the GTK inspector and just start poking and tweaking.

The only way to change the UI density is with xdg-config/gtk-{3,4}.0/gtk.css. You can use @import to split the changes across multiple files. Here is what I use to slim down GTK3. You also need this tweak for the headerbar height to not be decided by an invisible "sizing box".

And if that's not enough, you yourself seem to have been responsible that exactly this change was added to apt. If I may refresh your memory: https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1 It even links to upstream Debian work mentioning exactly this method: https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/196

And no matter how hard it is, if it's possible to break it, someone will find their way to completely breaking the system. Look at what Linus had to do to break his Pop!_OS install - go to the terminal (which already renders it far out of reach for the average user), run sudo apt install steam, and ignore a giant error. And that wouldn't work anymore anyway, because Pop now uses a version of APT that completely forbids breaking the system unless specifically configured to allow it - so there is now an extra step in there, telling APT not to preserve pop-desktop.

This isn't locking it down. This is about providing sensible defaults like I mentioned before. For power users, the control is still there. It's easy enough to create the `/etc/apt/break-my-system` file so that you can shoot yourself in the foot if you wanted to. This is not similar to what ChromeOS or Android is doing at all.

ah, I thought you mean https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1

- Improve the GUI package manager error message: https://github.com/pop-os/shop/pull/302 - Make the apt message more explicit and make the bypass much harder: https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1

https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1/files Here is the code change. Note line 311.

They have already committed a fix that improves things dramatically.

And they already issued a "fix" to prevent people to easily "break" it.

And their fix for the issue Linus had is downstream only. Not a word said about working with Debian on this.