There may be hundreds or even thousands of distributions. But it's not really evenly distributed. Ubuntu and Fedora are really big in personal space. Red Hat rules the enterprise. Debian is nice for el cheapo virtual servers at hosting companies. Also knowing Debian, makes knowing Ubuntu that much easier and anyone who runs fedora on his laptop can easily administer the big Red Hat boxen.
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Yet another "he's wrong".
He's spent time writing solutions for a problem he perceives and that's fair enough, but centralised, managed updates and stable long-term support for a single major version of an application is a major feature, especially for enterprise deployment. Ubuntu gives me five years where nothing changes but things remain secure, with patches backported. This chap would have app developers be the people who decides what's supported and for how long. The likelihood of your entire stack having the same options? Nil. It would be unsustainable.
And for somebody moaning about desktop options, he's adding to the chaos. I have apps from developers using AppImage, Snaps and Flatpak. He seems oblivious to how miserable that makes staying on top of updates is now. A problem of tooling? Maybe. But PPAs make it simple.
Putting effort into a system that combines continuous integration with multi-distro packaging would solve this stuff. But hey, it's not as fun as adding a new standard to the tyre fire is it?
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Originally posted by lectrode View Post
Then exclude that package from updates:
Pacman:
pacman -Syu --ignore <pkg>
(or edit pacman.conf to make it "permanent")
Apt:
apt-mark hold <pkg>
apt-get update
I'm sure other package managers have that ability easily available as well. Most people want their packages to get updates (for security, performance, and other improvements). That's why packages that you don't want updated are the *exception*, rather than the rule.
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Pirates are starting to package Windows games for Linux better than the developers
https://www.nag.co.za/2017/10/27/pirates-are-starting-to-package-windows-games-for-linux-better-than-the-developers/
On sites like The Pirate Bay and others, uploaders have started packaging games distributed on GOG using Flatpak, a standard for packaging software in Linux that includes the software and everything needed to run it. Think of them as portable apps, if you will. Applications run from Flatpak installs are self-contained, run in their own process to protect the system from crashing, and are sandboxed to avoid software nasties from infecting you.
Installing them is very nearly a one-click process, and they don’t end up putting system files all over the place. Better yet, apps packaged using Flatpak will work on any distribution, so there’s no fragmentation.
What the pirates are doing is packaging these games as Flatpaks and also including the scripts, software, tweaks and fixes that are needed to make the game run out of the box. You’ll install the correct Wine version, the relevant Wine-prefix for Play On Linux, maybe some software updates from GOG’s servers, and it’ll even check to see if you have Play On Linux installed. If it isn’t, it’ll prompt you to do so.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View Post
This is a Linux ecosystem feature.
If this "problem" is to be solved, I hope the "winning" desktop is not GNOME... Otherwise that would only pave the way to the "Year of the Possibly Horrible Linux Desktop"...
If Linux desktop users voted with dollars, I suspect this issue would have been resolved. Linux server users *do* vote with dollars. You can count those players on one hand.
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostThis is a Linux ecosystem feature.
If this "problem" is to be solved, I hope the "winning" desktop is not GNOME... Otherwise that would only pave the way to the "Year of the Possibly Horrible Linux Desktop"...
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Originally posted by tildearrow View PostI mean, I know how to ignore an upgrade for a certain package, but often I hit situations in where ignoring the package upgrade results in the application breaking in the next upgrade due to some library being not present...
Originally posted by mao_dze_dun View PostBecause nothing says "Welcome" to a typical Windows user as much as using the terminal
Originally posted by mao_dze_dun View PostFlatpak is the solution.
Originally posted by mao_dze_dun View PostUnfortunately, fragmentation is the bane of Linux and the reason we can't have nice things. I like choice, but I dislike chaos.
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