The notion of proliferating Linux distributions may appear conceptually robust, boasting diversity and tailored solutions for distinct user needs. However, the operational reality often devolves into a tangled web of fragmentation and compatibility issues, emblematic of a complete clusterfrick. Despite the ostensible benefits of choice and customization, the disparate nature of distributions fosters a fragmented user base characterized by divisiveness rather than cohesion. Rather than rallying under a unified banner, users tend to segregate into camps, exacerbating interoperability challenges and hindering collective progress. This disarray not only impedes streamlined development but also exacerbates support burdens, as divergent distributions necessitate bespoke solutions. Thus, while the ideal of diverse distributions may hold allure on paper, its manifestation in practice frequently yields a cacophony of discord rather than a symphony of collaboration.
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Shut up Black person.
racist
How could you possibly prove that?
normal desktop application devs for Linux just pack an AppImage or Flatpak.
It's the distros that deal with the shared libraries and porting it to their ancient shit. The main developer doesn't have to care, Debian will port it themselves if they want to have it in their distro. That's how it's always worked.
We're talking about selling software here anon
>the year is 2012+12
>tards are still getting filtered by installing third-party software on Linux
Literally just unzip the tarball in /opt/someprogram and run it. It's that simple.
You have no excuse for not being able to figure this out.
>build everything static and get flamed
This never happens.
Just use Flatpak, my dude.
I'd rather use flapjacks, brother.
Wtf did you just say
>flatpak
>downloads a literal system with libraries that i already have eating up 5GB on disk
>the app itself weights 50MB
flatpak is slowly reaching snap levels of autism
if only there was some way to have one system where common libraries are share amongst all the programs you have installed, that would save a bunch of space and ram!
>includes distributes that I already have chewing up gigabytes of space
Windows software is equally dumb. At least steam shoves it all in one place rather than having 500 versions of the same fricking .net installer.
>I want it to just werk without having to manage shared dependencies but also it has to use as little disk space as possible
And you morons wonder why freetards don't want to cater to normal people.
or just use a sane build tool, provide instructions for auxiliary content, and let distro maintainers do the work for you
Nobody talks or types like this
>has solution to problem
>whines anyway
the true linux experience
containerize it, simple as
also these threads look like someone playing with a language model
>also these threads look like someone playing with a language model
saw similar threads on IQfy, I think someone is(or multiple people are) fricking around with automating OPs using stable diffusion and/or a language model
this site is getting exponentially more dogshit by the day
>develop an app for Linux: release the source code and let users and distro maintainers build it
Wow, so hard.
Docker solvex this
I agree. Experimentation has been good in many ways. But eventually one distro needs to become dominant. It could be a "low-level" distro on which others are built.
floopzoople poopie library, developed by a temperamental trans otherkin liable to delete the repo at the drop of a hat, already solved this problem. this is a complete non issue OP. stop fearmongering, the linux community has never been stronger. now excuse me while I go check in on Wayland
I don't like the font used on submenu 573 in floopzoople poopie library. It's why I wrote bingus framework. It even supports the commodore 64, and it only added forty trillion lines of code to the repository. You should switch to bingus framework.
You're both fricking morons, this is why I use libfreelibrefreedomfreeix-librelibus. The mailing list just announced their intent to have a meeting to consider proposing a convention to discuss a hypothetical change to the codebase in 2054 supporting Standard 1, which we should have been using all along. It's been rock solid when it works, and it's been around since 1987 so you know it's well designed. I heard they're adding thumbnail support soon too.
PSA: libfreelibrefreedomfreeix-librelibus is made by fascists who took over the project and you should switch IMMEDIATELY to our fork, the prismatic-librebogbus. We have changed the README to remove all the opressors and made a nice icon (LGBT MONTH PRIDE BTW) for the project.
>prismatic-librebogbus
Frick you, their annual redeclaration of vehement support for Israel was not NEARLY as strong as it should have been. I'm not using that anti-semitic garbage codebase
Use flatpak,
People still say "flamed" in the year of our Lord 2024?
Ai post
>distributing anything on macos or Wang blows
LMAO
shitblows defender throws hissy fits I have compiled on the same machine 5 minutes prior, let alone sharing it with anyone
guys
libfreelibrefreedomfreeix-librelibus doesn't work on my openArchbian. I checked the logs and turns out my ywabaw.so library is deprecated. I can only find this library compiled for UbungenSUSE. What do I do?
blow it out your ass
>single binary for OSX
this twatter poster does not code lmao
>the creator of Vagrant, Terraform, and Vault does not code
the absolute state of IQfy
>very smart person
>makes fricking moronic comment
Many such cases. Shitblows software is bundled with a thousand fricking .net installers.
Windows is dumb.
*laughs in nix*
this is wrong. to distribute an app for linux, you just give them the source and let each distro maintainer figure what hacks it needs to run on their environment.
>but muh app is closed source
don't bother. it's not like linux users are going to pay for your shitty spyware anyway.
>what is static linking
Blame GNU shit. It's not a Linux problem.
get rekt gnerd
Stop posting gunky word porridge.
This wouldn't be a problem if we just statically linked everything. We wouldn't need docker or flatpak or any of this shit.
Everything would just werk.
because the topic is worth discussing even if the op is dogshit
It's not remotely worth discussing unless you have no understanding whatsoever of GNU/Linux, open source licenses, and operating system history (and if that's the case, then you should just shut your dumb trap). It also centers on a hysterically exaggerative strawman.
thanks for the (you) big chief
No problem my man. You're a good guy and I thought you deserved one.
But this is the result of freedom, both users and programers did this because they wished to do so, cope seeth n dilate
Linux is a server OS. Nobody in their right minds uses it for anything else
What's the alternative? Windows and MacOS are too unstable
Huh? I crash either of those OSs like once a year, and usually because I'm hot swapping hardware. Linux breaks under those conditions more often
I don't mean that kind of instability. I mean that there's no guarantee that anything will continue to work on Windows or MacOS. Anything can change at the drop of a hat. Your software can become unusable. Something you configured before will no longer be configured. The UI will change. Ads will appear in the OS. Features will be removed. Terrible new features will be added, that require work to disable, or are even impossible to disable. Essentially, your entire computing environment is at the mercy of a corporation that may be incompetent or even malicious. To me, these things make Windows and MacOS torturous to use. Linux may have some of these issues sometimes, but it's a lot less.
homie that happens in Linux all the time. Have you ever tried to port or back port? How many fricking versions of qt are there, vs how many versions of GDI? Plus Mac and Windows apps use a more monolithic set of libs instead of the spider's web of libs and headers in fricking eunuchs land. Linux is a fricking mess!
All of that pales in comparison to the bullshit I endure in Windows, which I have to use for work. Windows libs are a nightmare, in different ways from Linux. But I use fairly minimal software with Linux, which helps. I'm sure it's annoying to use GNOME or something.
I used to port forward a WiFi snr tool until it just became too fricking bothersome. I switched to a similar tool that uses ncurses just because that protocol is settled (unlike the forevermess that is Linux GUI).
Windows has great backwards compatibility
I don't really use GUI tools if I can help it. They suck on Windows and they suck on Linux. Windows does not have great backwards compatibility in my experience.... I sometimes play old video games and it's easier to run them with Wine. I know a lot of horror stories in the world of scientific computing where an sacred XP box has to be maintained because none of the software will work on Windows 7, let alone 11.
I don't care. Stop building nonfree shitware. Simple as that.
windows is a tool
linux is a toy
macos is a śóý
None of them are formally verified correct so they're all, by definition, toys.
Immutable distros will probably invalidate most derivative distros, everything will just be customized images
Linux is not a platform. It's a collection of software, tools, methodologies and paradigms. If you want to use Linux technology you use it to build a solution for whatever you're trying to do. A "desktop" is a platform and a product and not something you just throw together. If you do build a desktop out of linux, a complete platform, it will break from everything else out there, because there is nothing else out there.
Successful Linux products: Android, ChromeOS, embedded Linux deployments.
Unsuccessful Linux projects: Random distributions with thin skins over all kinds of different underlying stacks that have little in common with each other.
If you're a developer, admin, student etc you can hack something together that works for you. If you're not a technical user, a business professional or new to computers Linux has nothing for you.