Comment by bcjdjsndon

2. Does it really matter? You can always ship a statically compiled games. There’s only one kernel that is greatly back compatible.

There's more to it than dependencies. It's a valid point.

> I think ELF is the official standard for executable binary. The competition is illusory. There’s nothing preventing anyone from distributing a self extracting archive that installs on /opt. Packaging on Linux is about your system consistency, not software availability.

I think he meant .MSI and not .exe, but the point remains and is still valid. Why are there multiple ways to skin the same cat?