Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by dathinab on Saturday May 01, 2021 @09:23PM
(#27011538)
I can only agree.
From a desktop point of view Linux needs some major improvement about how it handles applications.
It also has all tools to do so, but it would brake a lot of existing applications.
In the past I though Flatpack and Snap would steps in the right direction. But now I'm not so sure about that anymore (snap made some steps in the right direction but also many in wrong directions, flatpack seems to not care about anything but making things run easier, in both cases moving from a kinda curated repo to a not-really curated one turned out horrible).
For a server point of view things matter much less, especially wrt. modern setups (container, vm in cloud, cloud provider running customized and hardened Linux container/vm hosts, etc).
And in the end most companies paying people to work on Linux are primary interested in server-ish setups, and only secondarily in desktop setups (for the people developing the server software). Some exception would be Valve, I guess, for which Linux is an escape hatch in case bade lock-in patterns from phone app-stores take hold on windows.
From a desktop point of view Linux needs some major improvement about how it handles applications.
It also has all tools to do so, but it would brake a lot of existing applications.
In the past I though Flatpack and Snap would steps in the right direction. But now I'm not so sure about that anymore (snap made some steps in the right direction but also many in wrong directions, flatpack seems to not care about anything but making things run easier, in both cases moving from a kinda curated repo to a not-really curated one turned out horrible).
For a server point of view things matter much less, especially wrt. modern setups (container, vm in cloud, cloud provider running customized and hardened Linux container/vm hosts, etc).
And in the end most companies paying people to work on Linux are primary interested in server-ish setups, and only secondarily in desktop setups (for the people developing the server software). Some exception would be Valve, I guess, for which Linux is an escape hatch in case bade lock-in patterns from phone app-stores take hold on windows.