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Re:The End of Windows by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:46PM (#16737015)
Yeah, it speaks volumes that the best way to ensure applications work on your platform is for the dev to bundle their own version of the platform in a container with the application.
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Re:The End of Windows by majewsky on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:21PM (#16737495)
Well, it's also how OS X apps work, and have worked for a long time already.
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Re:The End of Windows by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:53PM (#16738612)
...those are called folders. DOS applications worked that way. Only UNIX people seem to think that not hardcoding all your paths is some kind of special voodoo.

Oh, you meant that they package the libraries with the application? Yeah. If it isn't part of the base system, they do. That's how it should work or you get DLL hell.

Problem with Linux Desktop is if you put any two of its community in a room you'd have 4 different incompatible base systems within a week.

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