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Flatpak will depend on systemd
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this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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My issue with the Linux ecosystem becoming heavily centralized on a few tools that most distros are built on and reducing the modularity of these tools is that it leaves most users vulnerable to attacks on their privacy (and supply chain attacks) and ability to protect themselves from capitalist surveillance when age verification and other dystopian laws take effect, and it becomes more difficult to escape from these dependencies. I also don't like systemd as much now because of the poor code quality from its heavy use of AI slop.
I get that many tools are reinventing the wheel, and developers' free time and funding are very limited, though I believe many tools still serve specific purposes better than others, and it's good to have a backup when one dev team decides to make a controversial, unethical decision that puts users in jeopardy which happens very frequently.
When people say "Linux is about choice", it does sound idealistic, but honestly I believe they are not wrong to an extent. The Linux ecosystem needs to retain its modularity, otherwise it becomes easier to exploit and enshittify like other corporate proprietary operating systems. I wouldn't care about this as much if we weren't under threat of this capitalist dominated world.
I get and agree with the capitalist attack angle. The AI slop code is everywhere, so I don't think that's necessarily unique. There's very few projects with the backbone to say that slop coders will be perma banned from the repos or putting in place more strict controls on contributors.
You highlighted my main problem in the middle though. Lots of Linux users get upset that things are moving to Flatpak instead of keeping to native packages, which makes things significantly easier for developers to not have to worry about the differences in multiple distros. Developers are moving to Wayland because they're tired of carrying decades of technical debt that isn't worth it to untangle. For every move like this, there's users who complain that their 'choice' is being taken away when they in reality contribute nothing at all to the ecosystem aside from running it on their computer.
Many of these complaints and efforts are championed by the fascists in the community too, like the Xorg fork, the HHD developer kicked off the Bazzite team for being a transphobe and the CachyOS team refusing to work with Bazzite due to that "drama", the the Hyprland dev and their dislike of desktop environments, Lunduke and his ilk, the pedophile Stallman evangelists, etc. The list is endless. And not that we should let them 'win' and refuse to do good things because they also want it, but it makes me question how much of it is RETVRN type shit but in relation to computers.
That's why I don't care at all when developers say stuff like Jorge Castro and go "of course this is happening, deal with it", because they are doing things that makes their lives easier and I imagine they also don't want to deal with these same people who insist on sticking to convention and blocking any sort of progress. I strongly appreciate what the Ublue team has done (including Jorge with Bluefin) to make Linux actually usable for the average person and not a nightmare of following guides to find the right package for your very specific problem.
All this makes it very difficult to separate out the legitimate criticisms you've brought vs. the nonsense.
I agree with everything you said. We really need more leftists contributing to the Linux and FOSS space and making media content. There's too many fascists that have a lot of spotlight in the community. I also believe Flatpak can be a really good way to install user software to minimize maintenance issues of native system packages (as well as the benefit of sandboxing applications and restricting permissions), but I'm really disappointed that they are now considering age verification checks.
It does make me feel gross to make valid criticisms of these tools being exploited by capitalists, and it's muddied by chuds who exclaim "muh freedums" and harass developers who don't have infinite time to support every system.