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Again, that is a problem from ages ago. Not now.

• jiggy2011 14y ago
  It's still an issue for anybody who wants to ship software for more than one distro. Not to mention WM fragmentation. It's also quite disingenuous to say "Use Linux you get a choice of Distros!" and then say "stick to Ubuntu if you want stuff to actually work".
  • zanny 14y ago
    > Our linux installer has never been a problem. Not only that Valve released their software just for one distribution. Within hours you had people working out how to get it to work on the distribution of their choice. So the fragmentation is not a problem, but more of a benefit where users do the work for you. Direct quote from the guy you are in the thread with. If you put it on one distro, the others will port it for you.
    • jiggy2011 14y ago
      Unless it's you know not open source or something. Even with open source , you get version lag between distros.
      • pavanky 14y ago
        Steam is not open source.
        • jiggy2011 14y ago
          And they were lucky enough to have valve's blessing to redistribute it for Arch. If I release some small program for one distro I certainly cannot count on all of the other distros bending over backwards to repackage it for me.