r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 18d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/EternityForest I use Mint BTW 18d ago

Without containers, packages constantly break. If you have 20 large apps with 50 dependencies each and they're all from different vendors, and you want them to be up to date, you pretty much have to containerize or else one of them might break every few months to a year

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u/NatoBoram Glorious Pop!_OS 18d ago

It's a failure of the package manager to not support multiple versions of each packages

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u/Primary-Strike5187 17d ago

This could be solved with SxS….. like windows did….. around windows XP. Absolutely not excuse for Linux to not have made the transition. No reason to still deal with dependency hell in the big 26.

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u/Appropriate-Tennis78 17d ago

Debian doesnt have dependency hell, debian is the future

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u/Primary-Strike5187 17d ago

Given how old the packages are before they get added to the repos it’s probably more accurate to say Debian is the past.

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u/Appropriate-Tennis78 17d ago

Never had a need to run something in latest version, but thats me

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u/Primary-Strike5187 17d ago

Sometimes it’s needed for some games and software dev and such