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If you want to complain about something, complain about the completely pointless fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem that pretty much mandates "curl|bash" to s
by api 10y ago
If you want to complain about something, complain about the completely pointless fragmentation of the Linux ecosystem that pretty much mandates "curl|bash" to ship software for "Linux."
- vacri 10y agoYou say that like advanced packaging tools weren't pioneered by "Linux"...
- api 10y agoThey were. That's not the problem. The problem is tools -- plural. Users think "I have Linux, where do I get the Linux version?" You have to provide arcane instructions for how to add a package repository on Every. Single. Linux. Distribution. Or you can script it and users can run a command. Still painful, but less so for the user. As far as the distributions themselves go: they are harder to get software into than the Apple App Store. The rules are arcane and the docs either barely exist or are on wikis that have not been updated in over a decade. The whole process is unnecessarily arcane beyond belief.