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I find that people spend more time writing about how linux is unstable and there's no software for it then they would if they just googled what software they need and just installed the software that does the thing that they want that linux already has available in almost every distribution...
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In comparison, take any which Windows exe file, and it will run on pretty much any version of Windows
Watch me run that in vanilla wine the SAME WAY
In comparison, take any which Windows exe file, and it will run on pretty much any version of Windows
except when you need to manually install some msvc dependencies, make sure it's compatible with other software you have and ...
MSVC redistributable dependencies are also a problem on Windows. If you try to run an app built with a version of the MSVC runtime that's not installed on Windows, you'll get an error telling you to install it. Microsoft doesn't ship all possible versions of that with Windows, so users are on the hook to install it themselves (if it's a big publisher though, they'll typically include it as part of a installation wizard, and Steam handles it automatically behind the scenes).
make sure it’s compatible with other software you have
Not sure what you mean by this, as wine software is contained within a wine prefix. If you have dependency conflicts within a wine prefix, you can just create a separate one. Apps like Lutris make this easy to do via a GUI, and they even have community sourced installer scripts for well-known software that automates installing dependencies (like MSVC, fonts, or other bullshit you'd normally have to get through something like wine-tricks).
Watch me run that in vanilla wine the SAME WAY
I mean, sometimes I have to use proton-ge or -experimental instead. (The horror of interacting with one dropdown box!)
As a user, you can only install userspace programs or apps, which you lease from online stores.
Alright this article truly is junk
This is the most stupid article I've "read" since a long time. There's so much wrong I don't even know where to start. This has do be ragebait written by an AI.
AppImages may not run, sometimes due to libc, sometimes due to fuse. Technobabble for the common user.
The worst part is, the new formats are NOT compatible with the old ones. Of course. So if you want to use snaps or Flatpaks, you must ADD to your operating system. Instead of having just one package manager like zypper or apt, both the command-line utility and the equivalent GUI store, now you have two, maybe three competing software tools. This adds complexity and overhead.
This is fixed if you package your appimages properly and use the static runtime which was existed for over 3 years already...
I do that here: https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Anylinux-AppImages
Here is GIMP3 packaged on archlinux running on ubuntu 10.04
Sorry if this is your article, this is just a not well informed or focused bit of writing.
It's all over the place on topics, somehow thinking that all angles and applications of one particular thing fit the mold of the intended topic. That is the antithesis to how: a) versioned code, b) release management, c) LTS vs RR releases, d) use-case specific anything works. It's wildly missing the application of what to use where, even though the "desktop" is the intended target of the point.
It doesn't define ANY target application , and just kind of nags on things the author doesn't like, with zero specificity in the why/how of the what.
It's just putting opinions out there as if they are fact, or even useful, without explaining anything about the justification for why the intended point is even being mentioned (the atomicity thing)
It's just wrong in places. FACTUALLY wrong. It's clearly about a single user's experience, and not a well thought out wide field of thought as one would want if opinions are the topic at hand.
It's just bad and serves no purpose, sorry.
It's ironic that the author argues tht immutable distros are against the Linux ethos, but goes on to say we should be commercializing Linux instead.
I didn't know there were 300+ distros for linux
Wtf???
I've only ever heard of like 5
That's the thing all the distro is is just a a set of default configurations and default applications installed so theoretically anybody can make their own distro to somewhat degree especially if it's a child distro you can remix Debian 50 different ways and get 50 different distros while doing very little work.
Lol imagine getting filtered this hard, and publicly posting it. Some people have a humiliation fetish I guess.