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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:55PM (#17676633)
To my knowledge, there have been at least 4 other attempts to have sane application distribution on Linux over the years:

Application Bundles (GNUStep), AppDirs (ROX), Flatpak (formerly xdg-app), and AppImage (formerly Klik).

But Canonical invented a fifth anyway. Forgive me if I'm skeptical that change will actually occur this time.

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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by petre on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:44AM (#17677335)
Also Nix and Guix.
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Re:Opera launches as a snap for Linux users by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:47AM (#17677345)
Those are just package managers trying to be less crap than currently existing package managers. Vendors still aren't expected to create and deploy the application directly to the user.

Also, in that category, you forgot Gobo.

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