There are two important point we can all see: desktop hw is more and more full of crappy firmware, more and more invasive, powerful in capabilities, out of our

There are two important point we can all see: desktop hw is more and more full of crappy firmware, more and more invasive, powerful in capabilities, out of our control etc AND there is a clear trend to converge toward the mobile world with is actually the worst IT world we have ever seen in closeness and surveillance terms. It's clear that in a not so far future having Windows ad EFI fw and a distro as a WSL application could be the sole choice for most. Similarly the packaging part: actual trend to "sell" containers, pre-build images is a clear trend toward a proprietary world sold as FLOSS just because somewhere there is some code available. Just consider this: we do not need snap, appimages, flatpack, docker images, ... we have cgroups if isolation is needed and we have NixOS/Guix System. Commercial software, OpenSource-enterprise etc need those tools. Try to imaging why observing how real FLOSS development model was there in the recent past, the role of packagers. Unfortunately most devs are born trained to proprietary development model sold as the best and sole paradigm, they can't even imaging something different than copy-cutting GAFAM models.