Linux dependency issues

[Aragorn]

@andrewysk

cant linux being made such way that there can hav multiple version of dependency installed, that let the individual app to decide which version of dependency it want to hang around with??

Not Manjaro, no — Gentoo does. But this is either way what Snap and FlatPak were intended to work around. And then you get all of the problems that come with that, which is that…

• You’d be wasting enormous amounts of disk space, because every Snap or FlatPak comes with its own set of dependencies; and…

• Snap and FlatPak applications won’t integrate well with the rest of the system, because they run in isolated containers.

However, since you posit the question, I will drop off this…

[Consideration] Is Manjaro the right distribution for you?

Manjaro is NOT suitable for absolute beginners No, it’s not. And we — as the helpful community members of this forum — regularly have to explain this to the newcomers. Or at least, if we get the chance, because it is not exactly unheard of that a vocal newbie throws it out there themselves in a fit of frustration — if not arrogance or entitlement, because there’s a lot of that going round as well. So why is Manjaro not a distribution for absolute beginners? 1. Manjaro is a rolling-release d…

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