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The state of GNU/Linux and a case against shared object libraries

Personal critiqueThis is in part difficult to write since I have been daily drivingGNU/Linux for 20 years now, but I think it is necessary to be honestabout this.

And Snaps and Flatpaks tried to solve some of these things, but until a distribution comes out that is completely devoid of shared dependencies, we will still live in this purgatory. The main point is that, yes these packages can be big, but if we are honest, what would a couple of additional megabytes that would include shared object libraries actually do? But they certainly do care about borked systems and non-working dependencies and hunting for solutions for why libFlac was not found even though they have it installed (allthough slightly different version).

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