[gostsamo]

What I got is that the author is the right kind of developer, talented, producing something, and serving the people, and some other people in the linux community are trying to dim the shine of his light. The key sentence from the piece is:

> Freedom from the tyranny of package managers is the most exciting thing I've ever heard of as a developer.

The rest are a few shits and no init system beyond the title.

I'm not here to make value judgements lacking even a pony in the race, but the author could've been much more coherent without losing retorical strength. Also, maybe he should consider if his use case is the only use case, but that is going too far.

[S3kshun8]

I used that as an example, but, it really isn't the main point of the article. Basically, immutable distros are actually pretty good and worth using. I think that's largely where we'll end up due to all the various terrible user experiences I've seen throughout my years in the Linux community.

[gostsamo]

I used the title as an example for how confusingly the rest is written. Imagine alternative post:

I'm maintainer to OpenMW and we have specific target audience with specific profile. We have technologies that serve our goals and that we are happy with. We received request for change that we consider undesirable because app image and packet managers have requirements that make them unfit for our purposes. Here is why we chose not to do it and why the alternative is actually perfect for us.

See, much less shits in title and text, no generic attacks against other people and actual information is transmitted.

[S3kshun8]

I guess I did a really bad job getting my point across because ultimately the OpenMW situation was just used as a convenient example of the kind of tribalism towards technology I see embodied across many subsections of the Linux community. It's not just a single individual or project.

I'd love to do a more technical and less frustrated breakdown of this later - I stand by everything said here, but, I feel like I really failed to get my ideas across.

[Jach]

I'll keep using Gentoo, sorry not sorry. I agree that if my goal is to ship something like a game it needs to be easy to run or people won't play it, chucking an ebuild at them would not be helpful.

[cwel]

appimages are also immutable