Zak :1password:<p>Spicy opinion post. The future of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> is:</p><p>- Atomic. I understand that many people who love to tinker and customize will hate this, and there will always be room for classic packages when it comes to distributions. But for the vast majority of people, something that works and stays working at all times is far more preferable. This is how you make things rock solid.</p><p>- Flatpak. There's no way around the fact that OS-level packages make things messy. Similarly, there will always be room for them. But for most people, installing apps via a store (like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@flathub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>flathub</span></a></span>) is the way to make things easy and avoid breaking anything. It also greatly contributes to availability. Despite also liking Snap and AppImage in some ways, I don't think they're going to "win" here.</p><p>- Invisible. I've seen memes about this before. Nobody in the real world goes around talking about which operating system they use. They don't care, and they shouldn't have to. You shouldn't have to hear the word "Linux" from people using Linux in the mainstream. A modern device, to most people, is apps. It's not the operating system on which they run, nor the hardware on which they use them.</p><p>- GUI. This is self-explanatory. No one should have to open a terminal for anything. Telling people to do so (without necessity) is gatekeeping. They don't do it on Windows. They won't do it on Linux.</p><p>- Boring. In a good way! An operating system that is both invisible and unbreaking is not exciting. It should stay that way. In the mainstream, nobody is going to fight over liking Arch more than Fedora more than Ubuntu, or how much better Flatpak is than Snap, or argue over KDE vs GNOME. They'll just use the apps installed on their computers (or phones).</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>