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Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems (www.howtogeek.com)
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[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In order for that to make sense for a company, there must be one dominant distribution or their software must be the truly one and only for that purpose. Otherwise they just loose market shares to other companies willing to serve all distributions.

It is possible in principle and of course the MBA bros will try to pull stunts like this. It will be much more difficult to execute successfully though and it will be much easier to challenge from an anti-trust aspect.

Everyone running a linux distro won't be a fairytale land, but it is still a huge step into the right direction.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Exactly.

The more likely scenario is that companies will force you to use flatpak or something, since that way they can containerize everything to be the same across distributions. If you look at the Steam surveys, SteamOS is the standout distribution, but that's only about 25% of users, and it's due to the Steam Deck's appeal. The next is Arch Linux (nobody would consider forcing users to use that), and the one after that is flatpak. Steam arguably only officially supports Ubuntu, and that's <10% or so of users.

So yeah, there's no way everyone switches to a single distro in the short term, and new users don't seem to overly prefer one over another (I see lots of new users switching to Fedora, Debian, and Mint, whereas in the past it was mostly Ubuntu).

So yeah, bring it companies. Force me to you flatpak you little devils. :)