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Originally posted by avis View PostAnother exciting release of something that Linux doesn't have, and that's stable userspace API/ABI (sans RHEL but barely anyone uses it on desktop).
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Originally posted by patrick1946 View Post
You have flatpak, so you have not only ABI but behavior stability too which is much more important.
They were created precisely because API/ABI compatibility in Linux is a freaking joke.
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Originally posted by avis View Post
Both flatpak and snap are terrible crap which don't belong to Linux.
Originally posted by avis View PostThey were created precisely because API/ABI compatibility in Linux is a freaking joke.
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Originally posted by patrick1946 View Post
Can you explain what system provides a better solution which is stable but still evolving. Please don't tell me something about ABI because that is not providing behavior stability.
Are you a programmer? There are very few ABIs which are evolving without breaking the behavior. So ABIs are not that useful except for the lowest level.
How being a programmer or not is relevant to this discussion? Microsoft has implemented WinSxS which works beautifully, Linux woeful programmers have implemented basically a full-featured VM just to retain compatibility. I'm not interested in running Linux only VMs. I already have VirtualBox for that.
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