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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by perryh2 on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:09PM (#32473898)
Are these Linux app distribution problems solved by using Flatpak?
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by entropicdrifter on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:53PM (#32475217)
Most of them are, yes. AppImage also solves this, but doesn't have as robust of an update/package management system
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by edflsafoiewq on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:06AM (#32479087)
AppImage is basically a fancy zip file. It's still completely up to you to make sure the thing you put in the zip file will actually run on other people's system.
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by akvadrako on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:27PM (#32475618)
Yeah, their Linux guy obviously didn't know what he was doing.
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by Shared404 on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:36PM (#32475719)
Google Earth was released in 2001, and Flatpak in 2015. That's a 14 year window of time in which this wasn't an option.
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Re:Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux? by zsims on Monday August 15, 2022 @05:38PM (#32475744)
Flatpack only came out in 2015
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