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I haven't run a desktop linux for years so this might be completely off, but what I got from it was there will two majors paths: - you're a hardcore oriented d
by makeitdouble 3y ago
I haven't run a desktop linux for years so this might be completely off, but what I got from it was there will two majors paths:
- you're a hardcore oriented distro, you assume most things will be built from source, follow all of your dependencies and maintain the glue for your distro. Gentoo/Slackware style。
- you value convenience and go the snaps/flatpack route.
And you can still go the convenience path while building some specific apps from source, but there will be a bigger gap to bridge and it won't make sense formost applications.
I get the shift, as we're already seeing it, even outside the cloud, I think it's still the best of both worlds. I compare that to how I'm running a natively compiled postgres version but a containerized mysql because it was too much of a pain to match all the dependencies.
- JohnFen 3y agoBut there really needs to be a third path, in between the two you cite. Most Linux distros have been that third path.