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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.

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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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          Iphone is most locked-down anti-consumer pile of garbage and this is how you defend it?

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            There are different aspect to the same product. IPhone is lockeddown and aniconsumer, but it doesn’t mean every aspect of it is not worth taking a lesson from.

            In order for linux to have mass apeal, it will need to be simple by default, and that is where the app store model shines, you just search and click install, everyone can figure that out.

            But that doesn’t imply linux has to be lockdown and anticonsumer like iphone. If you want to compile your own kernel, you should have freedom to do so.

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              and that is where the app store model shines, you just search and click install, everyone can figure that out.

              This is how linux works for last 30 years…

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                Except now you dont need to worry about outdated software even on a super stable base. You get proper permission control and a mispackaged app cannot break the entire system.

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                  You get proper permission control and a mispackaged app cannot break the entire system.

                  How did this come up in discussion?

                  Anyway. Mispackaged app may also include broken permission control.

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                    How did this come up in discussion?

                    Because permission control is what most people expect on phone application, which is another way linux has great default UX that is similar to what happens on phones.

                    Finally, I don’t think a mispackaged app is supposed to be able to break out of the application sandbox, unless some bug is exploited.

                    Unless you are referring to the fact that some app are packaged with overly-permissive default permissions. But most people can change the default permission, and only grant permissions that makes sense.

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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 that exists in these universal formats.

        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.

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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.

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            Correct me if I am wrong.

            Different app depends on different version of the underlying softwares. In the old days distro packages apps, however it would cause dependency hell.

            Hence with the development in containers, universal packaging format prevails, where each app is packaged with all of its dependencies. so that the system dont need to maintain the dependency of every single app people want to use.

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              Different app depends on different version of the underlying softwares.

              On different ranges of versions. Usually something like “1.2 or newer”. With few exceptions that break ABI every year(looking at you, Boost) or 11 times a month(it is rust, who would have guessed). If everything was as hard as you described, then there is no way for me to play UT2004 back from, you guessed it, 2004. But I did, and all I needed just to install few 32-bit version of libraries and run it with OSS(very old audio api) emulation.

              however it would cause dependency hell.

              No, task of package manager is to solve dependency hell

              universal packaging format

              We had 2 universal packaging formats, now we have 5 universal packaging formats and two container types.

              where each app is packaged with all of its dependencies.

              Which in case of UT2004 means packaged with all exploits back from 2004.