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If you use a Linux desktop professionally, it's only a matter of time until you hit that one GUI app that you need, that is only supported on Ubuntu. I prefer
by grim_io 5mo ago
If you use a Linux desktop professionally, it's only a matter of time until you hit that one GUI app that you need, that is only supported on Ubuntu.
I prefer Tumbleweed, but the sane choice remains Ubuntu.
- d3Xt3r 5mo agoDistrobox exists for that very reason. No need to ruin your main OS just to run one app.
- grim_io 5mo agoDistrobox is great for cli apps and stuff not touching mesa/drivers. It's very awkward or unusable otherwise.
- d3Xt3r 5mo agoHasn't been my experience, running KDE Wayland on host with amdgpu. Just had to pass `--extra-flags "env GDK_BACKEND=wayland"` when exporting the app. Zero issues, far from being unusable. In fact you can even run an entire DE from Distrobox if you wanted to, although I can imagine that being a bit awkward. But a single GUI app? Shouldn't be an issue unless you've got a tricky/niche setup.
- grim_io 5mo agoThis is again the argument of the power user arguing that everyone should just become the expert in the power users domain. As long as the Kernel ist compatible, sure, technically. This is not what I would consider "supported". This is not something a company wants to deal with on every single Linux client.
- hollerith 5mo ago>This is not something a company wants to deal with on every single Linux client. A company following your recommendation would need to deal with installing and upgrading the software "on every single" Ubuntu client. I fail see how that is any easier than installing and upgrading it in an Ubuntu Distrobox on every single client running some other flavor of Linux.
- bcjdjsndon 5mo ago> that is only supported on Ubuntu. So much for that Linux ecosystem compatibility, Linux apps not even compatible with other linuxes!
- grim_io 5mo agoIt's a packaging problem. A vendor used to the Windows ecosystem might find it natural to support only one Linux distribution.
- bcjdjsndon 5mo agoSo if packaged with it's dependencies, that program would run on that OS?
- sharperguy 5mo agoBoth Arch and Nix solve this by making it very easy to write packages that work around the compatibility issues. When I used to use ubuntu and mint it was a lot more common to run into these types of issues.