Comment by rollcat
4 years ago
I don't like being cynical like this, but Linux can't even sort itself even on a single architecture: glibc (with the whole versioned symbol mess), musl variants, and so on, before we even consider shared libraries and package managers. Despite all the hard work of so many people, if you aren't running Ubuntu on x86-64, you will very quickly run into real problems running any kind of third-party software.
It can be difficult depending on your ecosystem, but often you can; when I said I'd like multi-arch fat binaries I was specifically thinking of Packer (and most Hashicorp products, actually), which distributes as a nice static binary per architecture right now. Also musl is quite friendly to static linking.