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Sure, but in this case specifically, "supporting (all) linux users" is already "solved" (they really only have to update their dependencies). Also, nobody expe
by mqus 4y ago
Sure, but in this case specifically, "supporting (all) linux users" is already "solved" (they really only have to update their dependencies).
Also, nobody expects them to support "all" users. They are only supposed to update their dependency electron (which does the linux compatibility stuff already) and maybe maintain the distribution for one of their new gamer target groups (steam os).
- rvz 4y ago> Sure, but in this case specifically, "supporting (all) linux users" is already "solved" (they really only have to update their dependencies). And how do you know that it will 'just work' after upgrading their dependencies? My point spans more generally that is unfixable due to the level of fragmentation that is in the Linux Desktop ecosystem. The fact that Discord hasn't done it tells us that they are both aren't confident in supporting an unstable desktop environment with too many moving parts or there is a low amount of users there which doesn't justify the urgency to fix these issues and will let it sit on a working version of Electron before they upgrade it and it breaks something. > Also, nobody expects them to support "all" users. Hence why, Discord knows that they will always get a plethora of annoyed 'Linux' users on an infinite amount of distro combinations reporting that the app doesn't work on someone's favourite distro. Hardly the case for Windows and macOS users meeting the minimum requirements to run Discord where there is a guarantee of having 100% support all the time.