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Re:Thunderbird 102 by SkyMarshal on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:25PM (#31915381)
Linux really just needs to adopt AppImage as the default manual install package. A single download that runs the actual application when you click it, no installation necessary. It may have a larger file size due to bundling dependencies that are already on the machine, but people who are bandwidth or diskpace limited can use their repo or tarballs instead. Just make the default option the simplest for non-techies to deal with.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by umanwizard on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:21AM (#31919712)
> Linux really just needs to adopt AppImage

Do you understand that there isn't some unitary organization called "Linux" putting out all these different OSes like Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.?

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Re:Thunderbird 102 by SkyMarshal on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:49AM (#31920070)
Of course, Linux community consensus was obviously implied there, didn’t think I needed to spell it out for the HN crowd.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by umanwizard on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:43PM (#31922587)
Okay. Why should the Linux community care about this? It is not a business trying to sell something to as many people as possible. It’s a diverse set of people and companies each working on whatever is important to them.

If consumers want consumer-level support, they can buy a Mac. What’s the problem?

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Re:Thunderbird 102 by SkyMarshal on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:59PM (#31927577)
Because the Linux community also cares about expanding freedom- and privacy-respecting general purpose computing to as broad a user base as possible. Simplifying the user experience is a necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, requirement for that.
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Re:Thunderbird 102 by umanwizard on Thursday June 30, 2022 @11:59AM (#31934420)
> Because the Linux community also cares about expanding freedom- and privacy-respecting general purpose computing to as broad a user base as possible.

This is, at most, a niche fraction of the Linux community.

Most people and companies involved with Linux care that it works for their own needs, not about abstract "software freedom" ideologies.

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