This might just be evolution. For development, at least for me, the experience was never install a distro and some packages from the distro and start coding. Th

This might just be evolution. For development, at least for me, the experience was never install a distro and some packages from the distro and start coding. There was always something that would require a bunch of bespoke installations. Libthis or libthat out of date. Files in the wrong place in the distro (or upstream developer's config). Old version of the database server. Now, I think there's a pretty nice balance going on. Seems like the distros do a good job of getting you to a working GUI and command line, and we've had all kinds of new tools show up for getting to the latest/greatest for development. That said, I think the distros could do a much better job helping devops and admins understand how to use tools like apt and yum. Then there's the whole container thing, which really does give us a more universal way to distribute software (ok, maybe not snaps).