Don't know if it is the future, but has been making my present much better.
I can finally have a stable distro with released yesterday packages. As a test I tried installing GIMP on raspberry pi, a x86 bits ubuntu 18.04 machine a x64 bits ubuntu 16.04 machine and x86 bits ubuntu 20.04. Three architectures, 4 distros, 4 machines: 1 command, the same software. It took a bit long to install on the raspi but it worked.
Flatpaks, snaps and appimages finally blurs the lines between distros. If there are problems, they should be improved, not abandoned.
I can finally have a stable distro with released yesterday packages. As a test I tried installing GIMP on raspberry pi, a x86 bits ubuntu 18.04 machine a x64 bits ubuntu 16.04 machine and x86 bits ubuntu 20.04. Three architectures, 4 distros, 4 machines: 1 command, the same software. It took a bit long to install on the raspi but it worked.
Flatpaks, snaps and appimages finally blurs the lines between distros. If there are problems, they should be improved, not abandoned.