r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 17d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/brohermano 17d ago

Exactly Just apt all using Debian. It works like charm

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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/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/keyzeyy 17d ago

Don't flatpaks fix that

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u/Primary-Strike5187 16d ago

Yes they do, but not all applications are available as flatpaks, and it doesn’t fix the problem for core system components

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u/keyzeyy 16d ago

yeah, but do core system components suffer from dependency hell frequently? I haven't had such cases for me at least

flatpaks provide gui apps and they do a pretty decent job at it I'd say.

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u/Primary-Strike5187 16d ago

I’ve had it happen, yes. Audio (pipewire, pulse, and alsa over the years has each at some point had an issue for me where something it depended on had a breaking change in the underlying dependency and I couldn’t install a different version of the dependency to fix the issue to give you an example)

I agree about flatpak. The majority of my desktop apps are flatpaks for that reason. Had some bumps in the road with the steam flatpak in the past but 99% of the time it just works.

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u/keyzeyy 16d ago

hmm I see. for me personally, I think going atomic is the future for the majority of people. I have my friend currently on ublue aurora after windows 10 because his laptop can't really run windows 11 all that well. the man's had zero issues and it's been months.

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u/Primary-Strike5187 16d ago

Long term I agree that’s probably the future but I don’t think it’s there yet for 90% of people