• @baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    Add to this, this gives birth to more modern packaging format like flatpak, appimage, and snap, that works across all distro with proper permission control.

    Now for most graphical apps, you just search on the app store and click install, like a iphone user.

    • xigoi
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      Don’t mention the S-word here, some people might come out of their basement to tell you how it’s the worst thing since proprietary software.

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        I think you might be talking about two group of Linux user. I think majority of the user realized that shared dependency is not scalable in the recent couple years, yet there are still a loud minority that oppose dupilicated dependencies.

        Finally, I think the three universal package formats provide better sandboxing support than msi. But appx in windows are very much inline with these packaging formats.

        • @uis@lemmy.world
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          shared dependency is not scalable

          Explain yourself.

          a loud minority

          Kernel develipers, libraries developers, compiler developers, distro maintainers, mirrors hosters, anyone whose system runs not on few terabytes disk and gigabit internet.

          I heard some geniuses put entire graphical drivers into snap/flatpak/appimages.