> Containers on the desktop are a symptom of a festering underlying disease. Agreed, although we may be in disagreement regarding what the disease is. > Moder

> Containers on the desktop are a symptom of a festering underlying disease. Agreed, although we may be in disagreement regarding what the disease is. > Modern Linux development is extremely rapid pace I believe you are over-generalizing, both over different distributions and over different packages within a distribution. > and is 100% targeted at the needs of the corporate entities paying for the development. ... specifically, many distributions are not funded by one, or a few, specific entities, corporate or otherwise. Debian comes to mind. I've never felt its is developed rapidly, or that languages change that quickly. > . Linux desktop can't live for more than a few years on it's own I'm not sure what you mean. > In order to deal with the backwards incompatible features some desktop distros have shifted to using containers. but the rest haven't.