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At this point nobody is going to learn a new system. People already know how to write and package exes which is the whole point. > but the hacks used to make o
by win32lover 2y ago
At this point nobody is going to learn a new system. People already know how to write and package exes which is the whole point.
> but the hacks used to make one app work can break others and vice versa
I think a lot of these problems could be avoided with a singular OS with the sole goal to support windows exes.
- School-Cotton 2y agoThat exists, it’s called SteamOS.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoAnd if memory serves one of the important features of Proton is to control how each app is configured individually, precisely to let you do needed tweaks at a local level.
- bitmasher9 2y agoYes, and you can do this application specific tweaking but it’s largely less required now than it was in the past.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoLess required in general or by the user? I sort of had it in my head that part of what Proton did was to just bundle all of those tweaks so you didn't have to think about it, but I haven't actually looked under the hood.
- barotalomey 2y agoCorrect. Parent is misinformed.
- win32lover 2y agoSteamOS is very clearly Linux which is not what the blog is suggesting.
- CRConrad 2y agoas I read it, Linux was exactly what the blog was suggesting.
- coderenegade 2y agoIt's possible to use docker as a package manager. I worked jobs where did exactly that, because we needed to compile certain dependencies for our application, and it streamlined the whole process. There's zero reason you couldn't create a small abstraction layer around docker so you can install "executables" that are really just launching within a container. I mean, isn't that the whole idea behind flatpak, snaps, and appimages? The point is to leverage modern abstraction techniques so that people don't need to learn a new system.
- tmzt 2y agoThis could be done using something like llamafile, in the sense that it would be a small universal executable containing a package. It could even support running as a self contained application on Windows, with all needed DLLs provided.