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@glyph To be clear, I agree with your complaint, as I read it. It's the twofold
- you aren't providing something non-developers can use
- you aren't providing something developers can easily target

Canonical is trying to make Ubuntu the desktop distro. And tons of software ships as .debs, whether or not that's really the best choice.

The wild English garden of Linux can continue to exist, alongside a TiVo-ized, consumer oriented Ubuntu. But if you lose the anarchy, it's not Linux.

@glyph there are problems, but I don't see the redundant efforts of various duplicated components as a core issue.

A lot of Linux is about avoiding monoculture. vim *and* emacs. Snap *and* flatpack.
It's something that emerges naturally from people trying to create a hackable platform.

I think we'd be better off if people shared ideas and infrastructure without denigrating one another's work. We should have both Qt and Gtk so that they can cross pollinate.