Re:Consolidating the Linux Desktop App Story: An Idea
by digi_owl on Friday July 14, 2017 @10:23AM
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The real elephant in the room is not a single platform, we already have that (Linux+Gnu+X11).
What is missing is STABILITY. The kind of stability we see over at Windows where win32 binaries from the 9x era can run on Windows 10.
The kind of stability one have achieved with the bedrock of Linux (and that Torvalds gets ragged on for defending), but that the DE devs piss on every time they make a new weekend project.
App stores are a distraction, single platform (more like distro monoculture, it seems to me) is a distraction, And Gnome+Wayland is the last people you want to entrust with anything related to stability (you can get Qt working on things that get GTK screaming about missing dependencies).
What is missing is STABILITY. The kind of stability we see over at Windows where win32 binaries from the 9x era can run on Windows 10.
The kind of stability one have achieved with the bedrock of Linux (and that Torvalds gets ragged on for defending), but that the DE devs piss on every time they make a new weekend project.
App stores are a distraction, single platform (more like distro monoculture, it seems to me) is a distraction, And Gnome+Wayland is the last people you want to entrust with anything related to stability (you can get Qt working on things that get GTK screaming about missing dependencies).