On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:18:45PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm not a friend of flatpaks and similar concepts, either. For me, > > it's not memory use, but the shifting of power from a distrubution > > model to single applications. I find that makes software less "free". > > Indeed. These end up reproducing the black-box model "it just works". > If you like that, then you presumably don't care what's inside the box. > It might as well be iOS, Windows, Oracle, ... I think it's interesting how history repeats here. This development resembles much Windows's answer to "DLL hell" back in the 1990s: every application comes with its own versions of DLLs. Cheers -- t
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature