[djsumdog]

Ugh. This trade off again. Linux package management means you update a library once, and fix that security problem everywhere for all the apps that use that library .. except for Firefox, Libreoffice, Chrome and others which insist on packaging their own versions of libjpeg, libpng and everything under the sun for stability.

A docker container contains all its own dependencies too. You gain stability .. but you could have a bedbug nest of security problems down there.

I don't get the move to Flatpack and Snap for desktop apps. Desktop apps need to interact with the base OS, the display system (X11 or Wayland) the shared toolkit libraries (GTK/QT). I've screenshots of native vs Flatpack vs Snap and they tend to have different window borders, some get the GTK themes matched up while others don't.

Not to mention the wasted space when every single application has its own version of everything. What, did you think electron apps each packaging their own 80MB web browser was a good idea too?

This just seems like the wrong direction to move in for Linux. We're not MacOS! We don't have hacked together shit like Android apks. We need to be better than that!

[XorNot]

Linux needs a deduplicating filesystem though in the kernel. Something to make containers and docker handle the situation of "lots of mostly identical files" well. Even ZFS, which should be good at this, really isn't.

[dralley]

Take a look at Fedora Silverblue with rpm-ostree, it does basically what you describe

[v_lisivka]

In Fedora, Firefox, LibreOffice, and Chromium are contain no bundled libraries. Main offenders of "no bundled lib" rule are Go and Rust applications.

[Conan_Kudo]

In Fedora, Rust applications don't have bundled dependencies, but since Rust doesn't provide a stable ABI, we statically link the libraries into the application for now.