I've been using Fedora 41 about half a year, and flatpak has not made it better.

Fedora 41 started with a bunch of apps distributed as rpm, but some of them have since been updated as flatpaks when I run 'sudo dnf update'. Splendid, except that the rpm apps, now a little out-of-date, are not deleted, which may be good or bad, but that explains why I have duplicate icons for the same app all over my desktop, and its pretty confusing trying to tell which is which, which is better, or how to manage the all the differences and conflicts, which Fedora 41 makes anything but scrutable.

The thing about the microphones and speakers getting tangled up, as explained in TFA, also was somethig of and for which I was unaware and unprepared respectively when I had some problem with the old-fashioned way and decided to install musescore as a flatpak.

I've been thinking about upgrading to Fedora 42, but this article is giving me considerable premonitions of additional inconvenience and incidental despair. Anyone have this stuff under control?