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Re:Thunderbird 102 by cowtools on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:06PM (#31914774)
I think you are doing this wrong. If I want to install some software on linux, I install it from my distro's package repository or I compile it myself. There's no reason to expect different linux distros to have binary compatibility. This isn't closed-source software on a backwards-compatable ABI like on windows, there's no reason to install binaries from an unsigned source.

If the developers of thunderbird want, they can supply a binary compiled against your specific distro/version, or a statically-linked binary, or a container like an AppImage

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Re:Thunderbird 102 by Yhippa on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:58PM (#31915188)
It’s astounding that someone new to Linux has to wrap their head around all of that. It actually kind of makes it like a cool, secret club.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by oldjavacoder on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:16PM (#31915312)
What's truly astounding is that Windows and Mac have developed their own Linux like distribution managers over the years indicating it's probably far better than the proprietary crap they created in the first place.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by diffeomorphism on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:41PM (#31916221)
It is astounding that you think phones need you to join a "cool, secret club". Open app store, click install is not new, not secret and much easier than download stuff from websites to sideload.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by Avamander on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:12AM (#31917619)
It's not a problem for new Linux users, it's a problem for old Windows new Linux users who are accustomed to the idiosyncrasies of Windows.
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