Re: I asked Hacker News what developers want from a desktop, and this is what they said

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 01:56:35PM +0000, Alexander Bisogianis wrote:

Agreed, but this is a very recent development, Fedora 21 was the first to provide editions, if I am not mistaken.

That doesn't feel recent to me, but maybe I'm living on an accelerated timeframe. :)

There should be a clear distinction between what the base OS is and what the applications that run on top of it are. Not for technical reasons so much, but for "branding" reasons mainly.

We're actually working on that, too, wih the Modularity initiative. On the desktop side of things, the rough plan is to start shipping some "application modules" as flatpaks.