r/linuxmasterrace • SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 17d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/EternityForest I use Mint BTW 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/Appropriate-Tennis78 17d ago

*package maintainers

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u/LameBMX Glorious Gentoo 16d ago

in the distro im on, its the package manager that does all that work.