

Lots of people have moved on to more dynamic options that use JIT-style routing and role-,based security.
Netbird, Tailscale/Headscale, ZeroTier and Netmaker are all pretty popular.
Netbird and Netmaker are probably the simplest to get started with, but Headscale server + Tailscale client has been the best performing in my experience.









An example:
Application Payload = 100MB AppImage all inclusive image with deps = 175MB Flatpak App Layer = 101MB Flatpak Deps = 75MB
Now say you’re shipping 1000’s of similar applications with the same general dependency chains in bulk operations to things like end-user devices.
Flatpak wins. That’s the point.
This isn’t a discussion about an average Desktop user saving some disk space.