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I think it's not quite simple though. For one, I think the opengl driver situation is complex, where I hear you need userland per-hardware libraries which basi

by rendaw 2y ago

I think it's not quite simple though. For one, I think the opengl driver situation is complex, where I hear you need userland per-hardware libraries which basically require dynamic linking. From that perspective windows binaries are the de-facto most stable way of releasing games on linux. I'm not sure about linux syscall ABI stability either, or maybe other things that live in the kernel?

feelamee 2y ago
> I think the opengl driver situation is complex, where I hear you need userland per-hardware libraries which basically require dynamic linking Yes. OpenGL driver is loading dynamically, but.. Are you sure that there are any problems with OpenGL ABI stability? I have never hear about breaking changes in it
- account42 2y ago
  The OpenGL ABI is extremely stable but OpenGL drivers (especially the open source ones) also use other libraries which distros like to link dynamically. This can cause problems if you ship different versions of the same libraries with your program. This includes statically linked libraries if you did not build them correctly and your executable still exports the library symbols. Not insurmountable problems but still thinks that inexperienced Linux developers can mess up.