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On a large enough timescale I don't think you can reasonably expect this on any of this big 3 OSes. From a less macro perspective, I think tools like Appimage a
by smoldesu 3y ago
On a large enough timescale I don't think you can reasonably expect this on any of this big 3 OSes. From a less macro perspective, I think tools like Appimage and Flatpak will fill that role.
- zer0zzz 3y agoOn a long enough time scale we are all dead, and Linux doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that in the decades that computer software has to be useful to actual people that things have to suck this badly right now.
- smoldesu 3y agoThe "actual people" using Linux on the desktop are not running .so files off the internet. I get what you're saying, but you know it's facetious to pretend that packaging is simple on Mac and Windows too.
- api 3y agoPackaging is fairly simple on Mac and Windows if you use the dev tools for the platform and are not doing things like installing services or drivers or changing OS configuration. Your packaged app will almost always work too. There are not 50 distributions of these OSes.
- zer0zzz 3y agoexactly
- zer0zzz 3y ago> The "actual people" using Linux on the desktop are not running .so files off the internet. They do this all day every day when they use a little something called Steam or when they install Google Chrome. > I get what you're saying, but you know it's facetious to pretend that packaging is simple on Mac and Windows too. It is...
- account42 3y ago> They do this all day every day when they use a little something called Steam Which while (initially) officially only released for a specific Ubuntu version ran on pretty much any up to date distro from day zero.