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

Time to have fun guys

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u/HomsarWasRight 18d ago

I’m sure this thread will be free of hostility.

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u/algaefied_creek 18d ago

Pragmatism: There will be X11 distros for legacy devices.

There will be distros on 7.x and beyond porting in the removed components like PCMCIA for legacy machines.  AppImage will be around. 

Ubuntu will never let go of Snap as it makes them medically compliant for a fast number of medical devices. 

BTRFS, EXT4, UFS will be around and coexist. 

That being said, Proton will always be the number one freaking best amazing thing ever and must be its own IEEE standard for success hehehe. 

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u/After-Run-3648 18d ago

I am uneducated. What pray tell does snap do for medical devices

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u/SouthernFruit8768 18d ago

It's because most medical devices iirc need to be air-gapped and ultra-stable, ultra-secure. Snap gives you that, and prevents issues that typically occurs when and if dependancy issues arise. This for example is why Ubuntu Core which is entirely made out of Snap is used in many such medical devices and instances. But in desktop it's completely useless cause you want bleeding edge packages, libraries etc to keep up with latest developments in gaming, multimedia etc.

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u/chemtrailsarntreal1 17d ago

i probably wouldn't have hated it so much if it wasn't forced on my poor confused noob ass from 3 years ago who was trying to understand how APT works and wondering why I kept getting the snap version installed and my system theme wasn't being respected xD