The rise of Flatpaks will alleviate this issue, I think. Build a Flatpak for your app and you’re good to go.
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KneeTitts@lemmy.world 1 year agoWe would need large companies and developers to start making their applications for linux and right now thats very hard because linux has 2500 different package managers and no one wants to maintain version of their apps for even the top 5 linux packaging methods, so unless that changes they will continue to make windows/mac only apps
d3lta19@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
steeznson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Companies have got around this by only officially supporting one distro, like Steam with SteamOS (I think they also support Ubuntu). Steam also do static linking of the common libraries inside of ~/.local/share/Steam so that developers can be guaranteed to have something like zlib installed.
I think there is also an argument that linux distributions are converging due to systemd being ubiquitious. Although I personally don’t enjoy using it and have substituted openrc on my Linux desktop, I can accept that developers can’t reasonably support it and I would need to find a workaround to use their software.
artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
we should have them support flatpak it seem to work on every distro i tried