| I agree that preinstalled OSX and Windows offer a better end-user experience. I disagree with some of your other statements though. > In terms of out of the box stability and support? How many devices have you used that came with Linux "out of the box?" > package management hell on Linux This is actually amusing to me. Windows has had this problem for a long time, they call it DLL Hell. Their solution was to duplicate everything and also to have multiple libcs that are incompatible with each other. Developers seem to forget this exists until they actually try to ship something on Windows. Nowadays, companies will just ship all of their dependencies they need. Reasonably, developers are reticent to do this on open-source platforms, but this is what results in package friction. Semantic versioning would also fix this, but it's unrealistic to think we could get the tens of thousands of packages in a distribution to follow this. I personally don't think Snap or Flatpack is the answer here either, but Nix is. Sidenote, I'm curious how you got into "package hell." I generally think things from outside the distro-provided stuff should be installed into /opt. Would you install things into System32 on Windows? My guess is that you either added an additional repo, or you installed a packaged generated by some open source code outside of any repos. |