It's easy to install on ArchLinux and Fedora. The build process seems to be just standard CMake, so calling it "borderline impossible" is really a stretch.

> So which is it ? fast or needs flatpak?

Are they mutually exclusive?

If you don't like flatpaks it seems to be available on the AUR, fedora or homebrew if you're using mac. Debian repositories are always lagging behind for new stuff so that's no surprise but the dev provides a script for installing dependencies on the rest of the distributions somewhat customized to your flavor if you're willing to build from source. There is a debian directory so it seems like they started the process of getting included but you'll have to verify in the mailing-lists to see what the current status is.

I'd say that's plenty of options to choose from. The simplest being flatpak. Are you a package maintainer yourself? Do you know how much work is involved to get into the main repositories? This is not npm.

How come? It doesn't seem to have any dependencies that you wouldn't be able to get, they're pretty common.

Wait, does flatpak have a runtime performance penalty?

If I can run Steam and play games packaged with Flatpak, hopefully my machines can handle a terminal emulator too.

With games, you don't have startup time issues. Not so for something as ubiquitous as a terminal emulator.

Do people have startup time issues with Flatpaks?

I can't say I've ever noticed a difference, but everything I use has an NVMe. Perhaps it matters.

While I personally find your comment quite insulting, I think that we have pretty brought support for various mainstream Linux distributions and also release binaries, including for MacOS and Windows. For Arch there's even an AUR, and for Fedora it can be also officially installed via `dnf`. Everyone else can grab a binary from the release page.

If there is anything else that you find is missing, I am more than curious to hear about it and we'll evaluate the priorities to include it. Other than that, I'm inviting you to contribute. :-)