"Rust does not have a stable ABI"
This whole ideology of &quot;the user should get all their software from their Linux distribution&quot; and it&#x27;s implicit consequence: there&#x27;s no clear difference between system software (internal tooling) and application software installed by the user (Audacity and friends) should just die already.<p>I want my OS to just provide a decent interface over which I can install application packages myself, packages that I get from my own sources, just like on Windows. if those packages are statically linked, fine. I know most Linux users disagree, but I don&#x27;t want the relationship between software vendor and user to be distorted by some distro maintainer, or having to be limited to a package manager. I want to be able to store application installers in my filesystem.<p>I also want my distribution to hide it&#x27;s Python binary from me so I can install my own Python without breaking the OS.<p>Basically: stop assuming that I want to live under your wing. I just want you to give me a nice desktop environment, a terminal and a well docomented way to install third party software.<p>I know distro developers don&#x27;t owe me anything, and it&#x27;s fine if they do something else, but this is the actual reason why Linux isn&#x27;t used in the desktop.