Maybe I'm missing something but didn't we solve this problem already?
I guess Windows adding an app store made cargo cutting that approach irresistible.
As someone who runs stuff at stupid (not fb or google, but not tiny) scale, this just annoys me.
He's right, in some ways.. But.. How many more layers do we need? Who will sign up for this?
No one.
I'm getting close to the point where I just can't take it anymore.
I keep deleting mesos and kubernetes setups and replacing them with 200 line shell scripts at startups with no ops team who are sold lies... Maybe I'll become a pig farmer or something. Open a pub.
There's a backlash coming, and we deserve it.
This is the guy driving the userland for most of us? Doesn't he realise that no one gives a shit about Linux desktop apps?
Sure there are some, we should be more focuses on the needs of people who are deploying 1000s of jvms or node apps or ruby or whatever though... Shouldn't we?
That explains the sad state of Linux on the desktop.