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> > A seamless blend of all Linux distributions. > Ah, yes, Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. That's all of them. I think the idea is to be able to run applications d

> > A seamless blend of all Linux distributions. > Ah, yes, Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. That's all of them. I think the idea is to be able to run applications distributed via Pacman, DNF, and apt (which encompasses many more distros than the named three) rather than needlessly put every single distro into one. It is poorly worded, I'll give you that.

pxc 4y ago
> I think the idea is to be able to run applications distributed via Pacman, DNF, and apt (which encompasses many more distros than the named three) rather than needlessly put every single distro into one. It is poorly worded, I'll give you that. It doesn't really work that way, though. Compatibility runs deeper than that. You can't generally just take a Fedora package and install it on openSUSE or vice-versa, even though you can run DNF on both. Same for any two releases of a given distro. You can only reliably do this kind of thing where one distro is directly downstream of one another, version for version, like Pop and Ubuntu. Proprietary software's Linux repos often obscure this, by shipping a big runtime for a package, bundling a ton of deps, so you may not notice this if you only ever add repos for Chrome and Discord via their vendors or whatever. (Not recommended, btw— proprietary software repos for Linux distros are notoriously ill-behaved, often in a way that poses a security risk.)