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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by devops99 on Monday December 30, 2024 @10:49PM (#42556247)
Drawio, Session, and SimpleX are three that use AppImage, just off the top of my head.

> because they come with all the dependencies starting with glibc

Good, because my system doesn't have glibc, by choice.

> Yeah, that will totally work

It's already working.

> And they weigh in hundreds of megabytes

My home connection is 2-gigabit symmetrical and the internal NVMe in my laptop is 4TB. So cry more poorfag.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by itvision on Monday December 30, 2024 @11:03PM (#42556314)
I'll just leave this here, please argue with it:

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by devops99 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:08AM (#42556550)
The lack of deduplication, or more like avoiding duplication, of what are basically files in some of these implementations is a problem.

But it's not a problem for me. It's also not a problem for most people. And it's not at all a problem next to the dumpster fire of closed source OS ; so ultimately there is no real problem.

Yet, all of that is moot, because someone already solved the problem. But I'll wait until they publish their work to talk about it.

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Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition by vunderba on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:48PM (#42560825)
> So cry more poorfag

You need to dial down the hysterics by about 1000%, or alternatively you might want to head back to the YouTube comment section since your vernacular seems more appropriate for it.

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