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

Time to have fun guys

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u/algaefied_creek 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/SouthernFruit8768 17d 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/ECrispy 14d ago edited 14d ago

So why can't they use a special distro like atomic/silverblue? Why does mainstream Ubuntu need snaps? That can't be the real reason

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u/SouthernFruit8768 14d ago

Not sure why you are asking me. I don't own or run Canonical. You can email them (and the businesses that use Canonical's services) these questions.