Comment by pxc
14 hours ago
> Steam does not have this problem. Download game, play game. Software is not that complicated.
Steam on Linux essentially has its own "package manager" which uses containerized runtimes: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools
The Steam Linux Runtime is pretty bare bones. Their most recent runtime hasn’t been updated in 4 years. That’s quite different.
> Their most recent runtime hasn’t been updated in 4 years. That’s quite different.
Bad, even.
False. The exact opposite of bad.
The “system” should provide the barest minimum of libraries. Programs should ship as many of their dependencies as is technically feasible.
Oh what’s that? Are crying about security updates? Yeah well unfortunately you shipped everything in a Docker container so you need to rebuild and redeploy all of your hierarchical images anyways.
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