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MJBrune@beehaw.org 7 months agoThose distros are different than what I am talking about. Those are immutable distros that preserve the preinstalled system base. It’s not at all what we’ve been talking about.
telemachuszero@kbin.social 7 months ago
You've decided that it has to be the traditional distro package manager providing the solution - but that isn't going to happen, because those have been designed to manage a single installation of interdependent software with no distinction made between core system libraries or services and end-user applications. The solutions to that problem - which also make it extremely simple to fix issues like the one you have with a single config file - led to the development of Flatpak and Snap. You can accept the solution or live with your own self-imposed limitation.
Some traditional mutable distros also ship with Flatpak + Flathub configured out of box and present the software alongside their own distro-specific packages - Linux Mint, PopOS, Clear Linux, CentOS, and Fedora Workstation come to mind.
MJBrune@beehaw.org 7 months ago
I don’t have hope for Linux becoming a major desktop OS anymore. It doesn’t seem like a priority. So I agree, distro developers trying to create an environment that would win over the Windows crowd seems like it would never happen because they don’t care to. It’s fine, different oses for different use cases.