Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

[Himanshu Shekhar]

Moreover, I think that Linux has come a long way and gained much maturity
on the server and enterprise side, thanks to parallel efforts of
"Canonical" and "RedHat" (and "Google").
The sector which Linux has long way to go is Desktop / Laptop and daily
computing. Why do you think people prefer to use Windows or MacOS? That's
what needs to be improved in Linux. Standardized things, at least for a
distro. Lots of customization available, but it should work out of the box.
My dad would not like to go in depth about synaptic and libinput stuff, or
the free/proprietary stuff. Things need to work like a charm, at least to
the maximum extent we can provide.

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:23 PM Himanshu Shekhar <
himanshushekharb16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I appreciate Xen's first response stating how things go on in Windows and
> Apple.
> I know that snaps and containers are very different things and function
> differently.
>
> I was less concerned about snaps coming to Ubuntu, than two standards,
> namely Snaps and Flatpak coming to Linux.
> Both are good in their intentions but they would again lead to confusion,
> they way we have today.
> Snaps/Flatpaks are intended to make applications distro-independent and
> unify Linux development. However, two things for the same task would again
> cause confusion about which to use / what will become the de-facto
> standard.
> **REPEAT** This reminds me of the state of Upstart, which after much
> development was replaced by systemd **REPEAT**
>
> I repeat that my concerns are Snaps/Flatpak and Wayland/Mir, not which of
> them is better. (I didn't start this thread to debate which is better).
> It is true that XServer is old and desktop/GUI computing has come a long
> way than the client-server model.
>
> I was eager to know how they are different, and how things in future are
> planned to be, as the current state of development branches in Linux make
> me feel like the chaotic scenario between distributions, packaging and
> graphics server would continue for long.
> --
>
> Regards
>
> Himanshu Shekhar
>
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Regards

Himanshu Shekhar
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