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Linus Torvalds himself also said this and basically positied he thinks Valve will be the company that brings us to a working desktop ecosystem by deciding on a universal desktop app packaging format.
I saw a video recently about the history of x11 development from retro bytes on YouTube and it is pretty much exemplary of the nature of open source development. I think I understand this whole conundrum a bit better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-N-fgKWYGU&t=0
Flatpack really had solved packaging IMO.
True, also worth mentioning appimage, like flatpak but portable
Appimage may be the closest thing to the “executable” that Linus is talking about in that specific conference I mentioned.
Debconf14 QA with Linus Torvalds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc&t=530
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It was only after becoming acustom to linux that I realized how horrifically insecure executables are.
If Windows used repositories, there would be way less old folks with malware.
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