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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by acomjean on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:44PM (#16510445)
Linux could really use a "It just works" solution for desktop apps.

I think its significantly holding back desktop and laptop adoption. Besides all the distros and multiple desktop environments, all these permutations seems like its holding back applications. I use a cluster compute environment but my client is a mac. If apple can make a "unix" that runs applications well, why can't linux. (I can't code it but I would buy it)

I don't want a separate vm or container for each app I run.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by stjohnswarts on Saturday March 03, 2018 @12:58PM (#16510523)
I have my fingers crossed for snap packages. I've only installed the spotify 'snap' and it works flawlessly. I haven't mucked about with any other packages yet
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Re:Linus Torvalds Rants by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday March 03, 2018 @01:16PM (#16510637)
Ugh. Snap is so f'ing over engineered. Linus chose AppImage for a reason. It's only a slightly over engineered implementation of Application Directories, which is the simple solution to this problem.
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