Good news yea ?
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I shall cheer for anything that makes things easier for end users. This seems to be a step in that direction.
It's an April Fools joke article. Take a look at core contributors in the infographic. "reddit's r/linux moderators." See also the end:
The conference was live-streamed and a few Reddit users reported seeing Fedora and Ubuntu developers engaged in a group hug after the announcement—though this remains unconfirmed as the video quality was poor due to everyone using different media codecs.
This, sadly, remains the universal truth if a new package format is introduced:
(credit: Randall Munroe, XKCD)
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Ugh. After all these years, this be the first time I fell for it.
I guess that just goes to show how bad it is that I want an April Fools' joke to be real...
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It's been harder and harder to tell apart fiction from reality 
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I've already read a nice one, too. But it is in German. But I want to share it:
To translate the Title: Red Hat buys Canonical - Ubuntu gets red!
I saw another News on this Day, that Ubuntu will make Root as Snap (they call it Snaproot). But I don't know if this is really ... well, real or a Joke.
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Be grateful it's not snoot 
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The closest we have to that are appimages, since they technically run on all distros without needing to set up anything (unlike flatpaks and snaps), and their "only portable" nature could be fixed by adding a way to "install" appimages
Didn't you mean a corrupt 'snot'? 
I still think the best thing that ever came out was Linspire/Freespire's Click'N'Run. It had just been perfected when Michael Robertson sold out to Xandros ... and what led me to ZorinOS 4.
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