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Developing ANY user-facing application for Linux is harder. Linus himself explained why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc https://www.youtube.com/w

• MaxBarraclough 3y ago
  TLDW: Linus speaking in 2014, lamenting that there isn't binary compatibility between distros, or even between major releases of a given distro. This was before the Snap project though. (Somewhat related: I hadn't realised until today that Snap isn't fully Free and Open Source.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(software)
  • account42 3y ago
    Snap is yet another Canonical NIH copy of others' solutions. There's already Flatpak as well as AppImage or just-ship-your-damned-dependencies before that. Lack of binary compatibily of random libs shipped by the distros is not a real problem in practice - base libraries (libc, opengl/vulkan, libasound/pulse) etc all have backwards compatible interfaces and the rest you can and should just include with your binaries. This has been known as far back as Loki back at the start of the millenium but somehow there are still people spreading FUD.