>contravenes the deliberate & elegant simplicity that something like an OS distribution used to represent That simplicity is also the root cause of an incredib

>contravenes the deliberate & elegant simplicity that something like an OS distribution used to represent That simplicity is also the root cause of an incredible amount of issues. Want to install a program that needs a different library version than is already installed? Well, too bad, guess you'll have to manually patch it (assuming the source code is even available). And there's countless such stories, 'dependency hell' is still an issue to this very day for dynamically linked libraries. Docker and the like didn't come into existence for no reason but because the experience of simple package managers is just not adequate. Now, dynamic libraries on their own aren't at fault of course. If more complex package managers like Nix were common this wouldn't be an issue, but simplicity 'won', so static linking it is.