Definitely agree, particularly when it comes to security.
Valve takes a snapshot of Arch repos, frozen in time. They then spend months developing on top of this version. And by the time it's released, it's multiple months out of date. They don't pull in security updates; Arch is a rolling release, they don't backport fixes like Debian or Fedora does.
Definitely misremembering.
We’ve heard from a lot of developers working on lower level system components that on package-based systems they can easily install niche command line tools for developers.
...However, after some discussions with the Flatpak developers, we have a plan for how to approach the distribution of third-party tools and we’ve already began prototyping. We’ll share more about this soon in a dedicated post.
I hope this system at least shares runtimes with Flatpak or else I will be severely disappointed. I'd be giddy if it's actually a case of flatpak offiically supporting CLI tools. It already does, and does it well, just missing a tiny bit of plumbing.
Technically yes, practically no.
Windows doesn’t include the drivers to read Linux file systems (except through WSL) and Vanguard sure doesn’t either.
If you encrypt your disks, then it definitely can’t.
Flatpak aimed from the beginning to be distro-independent, and consequently the Freedesktop SDK isn’t a repackaging of Debian or Fedora or Alpine Linux, but something more like a DIY Linux From Scratch build. As an app user you don’t notice any of this, because it’s very well executed and apps just work. Again, it’s hard now to imagine a parallel universe where the main Flatpak runtime was Fedora in a trenchcoat, but perhaps that would have impeded the success of Flatpak. (Of course Canonical still built their own app store technology, but I suspect that Canonical re-inventing things is part of every parallel universe).
I still find this "distroless" talk funny. There's so little difference in whether the Freedesktop runtime is built like "Linux From Scratch" or assembled from Fedora packages. Fedora is also assembled like "Linux From Scratch". At the end of the day, they're both just taking upstream code and compiling it. Fedora just has an intermediary step of creating a package.
The only practical differences are the release scheduling, support length, and compile flags. In another world, the Freedesktop runtime could literally just be Fedora packages but with different compile flags that are less restrictive in terms of patents/codecs. And it would make almost no difference apart from the support length being different.
Now I wish I didn't upgrade to 26.5 from 15 a couple weeks ago. I could've entirely avoided the worst parts of 26 design.
This is not a proposal to stop using SVG, it's just a fun re-imagination of Gnome if we all still used low resolution CRT displays.
Sorry, I should note that 26.3 is not released yet. This is a "snapshot", aka a development build. The full version of 26.3 will be released in a couple of months.
I updated the title to reflect that 26.3 is not released yet.