What languages are you wanting to use, the combination between toolkit and language can make a big difference to your experience.
There are a lot of interesting options out there that aren't top of people's minds too. For instance Lazarus, and Flutter. Both can do cross platform.
Used to use Xnest to do this. IDK how easy it still is these days.
Agreed
Knoppix got Ubuntu halfway there.
Is it Space Odyssey?
The fact that is is from LA Times shows that it's still significant though
Sounds like a regulatory solution is needed. The intersection where domestic policy impacts international.
As in part of a review process?
Things like:
This.
Thanks to Meta BTRFS is apparently got/getting it to a certain extent too: https://youtu.be/6YIc2fVLVPU?si=ngiHWS0fw2zIHf2M
Back before the media decided it wasn't a competitor but rather a potential profit source. I do think the government does need to have it's own alternatives (obviously not identical more on this one day) for other reasons, such as for it's own media releases, but more internationally coordinated appropriate & considered legislation is probably better.
Moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu in 2008 as I needed to focus more on my job, moved back to Gentoo in 2022. Snaps were part of it, but really the lack of maintenance and vision around the apt repository was really the issue. More and more I was installing stray debs, or having to use flatpaks / AppImages for what what I wanted the system to manage for me.
Not that I've entirely stopped using flatpaks or AppImages, but the process of creating an ebuild is far simpler than trying to do anything with a deb. For a while I had hope about the ppa, however that became fewer and fewer. I do think that the battle to have a comprehensive software repository is a loosing one because of the way things are currently structured.