asieApr 5
https://s3kshun8.games/blog/flatpak-won/

This should be mandatory reading for everyone invested in the Linux ecosystem, whether you leave feeling heard by or enraged by the author.
Gabe Newell Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing about Init Systems

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Show threadMoses Izumi
@asie
I find that Wine frontends are much worse than the packaging situation, when it comes to perpetuating and causing "problems that shouldn't even exist".

The common practice of giving every app it's own prefix seems to mostly be a workaround for Wine's inability to handle DLL Hell conflicts, and everything else they do could probably be implemented as plugins for your file manager/program launcher/system tray/etc.

It's supposed to be one of the pillars of universal Linux adoption (especially for gaming) yet is always treated as a wierd crutch rather than a proper environment.
Apr 5 at 10:47amWeb
Show threadMoses IzumiApr 5
@asie
speaking of Packages:
- Never really built software from source, but every OS should strive to treat it as a first-class feature rather than a nerdy/paranoid detour

- Flatpak works well enough, at the expense of clobbering the user's disk with gobs of redundant libraries

- I've stuck to Debian and derivatives, because it has a good supply of binaries that aren't Flatpaks

- I have a certain respect for the BSDs: because the differences between Free, Net and Open go deeper than "we made our own package format because X Y and Z" or "we use MUSL because it's safer and faster than GNU's C library" (no grudge against people who use and maintain such distros)