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But in practice it is much better than any alternative multi-platform instant software installation ecosystem. And in practice, it has led to a thriving ecosystem of applications, most of which can link to each other and will work on a large portion of users' devices.

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Yes, absolutely true. But I can't help thinking that there must be a better way to achieve these goals than this mess we've made.

We're clearly in 'we should be amazed the pig dances at all' territory rather than in 'look how good the pig can dance'.

There are no other dancers; there are only pigs.

The better way would have been for the open source community to advance the Linux desktop in the way that OSX has been evolved - i.e. To gradually bring the advantages of the web back to the OS.

But if OSX has evolved that way... Why not just use OSX?

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