I’m not too familiar with whatever Android is doing with apks these days tbh. I just don’t like how AppImages fails at the one thing it should do (universality) and doesn’t have the repo model built in. You can have third party solutions to that but it’s just not the same experience.

Why not containerise everything? You need libreoffice? No problem, here is a docker or podman container.

I’ve heard people suggest such a solution. Everything is a container and stuff is just exported out so that it shows up to the system like a normal program. Can’t really say I’m the right person to judge the pros and cons.

There is always another pack installed, freecode, gtk, qt whatever. Even if the system has already the correct gtk version, nope, the dev decided to use the gtk image from Ubuntu.

It can be both good and bad and sometimes it’s necessary. The whole system relies on being able to use different versions of libraries. But having them as separate packs can help in that programs can share those packs so as a dev you can just target one common base and have your stuff work everywhere. And sharing those runtimes has the benefit of someone else keeping it up to date while you can just test if the updated version works for you and switch to that if it does and so on. And with deduplication, runtimes and stuff share the parts that are common to both afaik.

It’s a bit more complicated than just shoving everything in but also it’s less work than same thing having to be packaged separately for every distro.

Better cli experience and the permission prompts are two that come to mind.

I’ve had bad experiences with AppImages. For universal format they do a really poor job at that. And it’s a huge step back into Windows direction that you’ll have to manually download, update etc your shit. Makes managing a bunch of apps a pain.

It’s amazing how shit Baloo actually is

I couldn’t finish it because it was both so over the top American (I’m not American so it feels different) but also because at times it was weirdly boring.

Finland: You’ll have to call this one and it works only inside Finland https://asml.fi/kieltopalvelut/

direct downloads

Never really been my thing

Never heard of it before.

Once again the US is in good company.

Huh. I think I have the same issue. I just noticed it.

btw

I definitely think so. Init was a mess of bash scripts and concurrency and whatnot was a problem. Making a script to start a service was very dependent on the distro, their specific decisions and whatnot. Systemd services and timers make things very easy and they have great tools to manage those. And now it’s basically the same on every distro.

“Youlag” lmao

Well, date time stuff for a system working with timers and scheduling actions might be pretty useful…

I don’t think they are using popularity as a metric. But I think the functionality of it is also very good, so dunno what their gripe is.

So even when you lose you win.

I feel like the glued together collection of scripts was way worse to manage than systemd.

No, UNIX philosophy demands that every single one of those things is one or more separate things and that half of them are poorly or not at all maintained. Just like God intended.

How is this functionality bad?