Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparently)

Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by WhyNotHugo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:13PM (#36623920)

Alpine feels a lot like a BSD to me, and I’m very happy with it.

But this bloatification is happening all over the place. Firefox is starting to have more and more dependency on flatpak’s daemons, even if you don’t use flatpak. These daemons are becoming the de facto standard for some interfaces too sadly. This also means that a lot of software is a lot less portable.

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by JohnFen on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:22PM (#36624706)

I'm just going to move to BSD entirely, I think.

I'm saddened to hear that FF has dependencies on flatpack daemons, but I'm not surprised by it. The direction Linux is going seems very clear to me, and I expect more of that sort of thing as time goes on.

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by Aerbil313 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @08:46PM (#36625490)

Meh. There’s just too much technical debt all over the place. Not even BSDs suffice from the POV of what an OS can be. A new modern OS written today with lessons taken from the past would solve the inherent pains of all existing ones. My dream is to do that. Just a dream rn tho.

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