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Re:Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea by bryanlarsen on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:18AM (#14769530)
He advocates flatpak, which is basically desktop Docker. You package all your dependencies so you can choose any of the 15 to put inside your flatpak, and it'll work with any of the 15 outside your flatpak.

You get the normal trade-offs for this approach -- large downloads, disk space, slow security updates, UI inconsistencies but XKCD 927 doesn't really apply.

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Re:Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea by revelation on Friday July 14, 2017 @09:29AM (#14769599)
Does everyone nowadays only write software that is some messy desktop rendition of a website?

The kind of software I write doesn't exist in a vacuum where all it needs is to run AMD64 code, Linux syscalls and a canvas to draw on. It needs to interact with the system, figure out what drives you have inserted, play nice with keychains and whatever..

You can't flatpak that.

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Re:Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea by bryanlarsen on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:48AM (#14770175)
Why not? flatpak has access to devices.
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