I don’t know, I’m not a developer. Lots of companies don’t make their products available on Linux, most cite similar reasoning, so it’s unsurprising. But I agree it’s disappointing. I really wish Linux was more user-friendly.
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1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 11 months agoI mean, can’t you just package your app in flatpack or even snap? Bam, your app works on 99% of distributions for little effort. That’s what Spotify does, and I’d argue they have even less incentive to support Linux than proton does
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
cley_faye@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sure, as long as you don’t need any integration with other software, don’t need arbitrary IPC, and actually keep some dependencies in line with some common denominator because there’s only so much you can do with static linking (oh excuse me, distributing the shared libraries in the same package as your binaries as if it’s a new thing) once it reach the “program must actually run” part.
Flatpack and every other similar solution that are described as “works everywhere” always come with a heck of limitations.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Last in checked email ain’t all that complex, so seems like a good match
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Thunderbird, MegaSync, Bitwarden all distribute as flatpak just fine, and it covers most of the functionality of proton suite.
Ironically the only two service this list don’t cover: VPN and Protonbridge, are on flathub…
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
He also answered this claim, it is right for apps that aren’t stuff like Proton VPN that can’t work in a sandboxed environment. They are working on it iirc
JoMomma@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Spoken like someone who has never developed a app package