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I guess it's easier to solve Erdos problems and improve the lower bound of the Riemann hypothesis, than it is to solve Linux desktop app distribution.
I guess it's easier to solve Erdos problems and improve the lower bound of the Riemann hypothesis, than it is to solve Linux desktop app distribution.
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LOL! Though as someone who shipped commercial software on Linux, it wasn't that bad, you just had to ship everything other than the kernel.
With the AI, we can finally have the year of desktop Linux.
Yes... Just use DEB package files for any distro. Make a compatibility layer that is distro dependent so that it can come preinstalled on any distro. It converts the DEB package to a distro native package so that it doesn't fuck up existing packages or the existing distro-native package manager, and gives you the apt and dpkg commands . Unlike appimages and flatpaks it has no reviewer, no store and it can be installed just like EXEs on windows which is already the case for DEBs on debian and debian based distros. Would this work?
Microsoft used to ship a Linux binary for Teams, but they stopped doing that. Guess the tech was lost.
Nonetheless, it's the year og the linux desktop!