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Have new distro releases become meaningless? (lemdro.id)
submitted 16 hours ago by mfat@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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When I read through the release announcements of most Linux distributions, the updates seem repetitive and uninspired—typically featuring little more than a newer kernel, a desktop environment upgrade, and the latest versions of popular applications (which have nothing to do with the distro itself). It feels like there’s a shortage of meaningful innovation, to the point that they tout updates to Firefox or LibreOffice as if they were significant contributions from the distribution itself.

It raises the question: are these distributions doing anything beyond repackaging the latest software? Are they adding any genuinely useful features or applications that differentiate them from one another? And more importantly, should they be?

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[-] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 23 points 16 hours ago

Some of them add bugs disguised as features, like Ubuntu’s snap

[-] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago

Funny, exactly what I mentioned in another thread https://lemmy.ml/post/21238446/14210360

[-] jflorez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes Snap is the bane of my existence. I actually had to create an ansible playbook for work that permanently removes the snap version of Firefox and then installs the official apt from Mozilla’s PPA. And on top I install other things my teams needs like VSCode and Chromium without using snaps. A nice repeatable process I wish I didn’t have to create but when certain clients insist on Ubuntu there is not much else to do

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