Comment by SyneRyder
9 hours ago
I guess it's easier to solve Erdos problems and improve the lower bound of the Riemann hypothesis, than it is to solve Linux desktop app distribution.
9 hours ago
I guess it's easier to solve Erdos problems and improve the lower bound of the Riemann hypothesis, than it is to solve Linux desktop app distribution.
Yes... Just use DEB package files for any distro. Make a compatibility layer that is distro dependent so that it can come preinstalled on any distro. It converts the DEB package to a distro native package so that it doesn't fuck up existing packages or the existing distro-native package manager, and gives you the apt and dpkg commands . Unlike appimages and flatpaks it has no reviewer, no store and it can be installed just like EXEs on windows which is already the case for DEBs on debian and debian based distros. Would this work?
LOL!
Though as someone who shipped commercial software on Linux, it wasn't that bad, you just had to ship everything other than the kernel.
LOL. Conveniently, electron is everything other than the kernel. Also, as much wasted RAM as an entire second instance of chrome that shares nothing, but oh well.
> LOL. Conveniently, electron is everything other than the kernel. Also, as much wasted RAM as an entire second instance of chrome that shares nothing, but oh well.
Well, with RAM being so cheap, why bother trying to trying to be memory efficient? It's not like OpenAI has an infinite pool of "AI" software engineers to work on this...
Oh wait...
Yeah, but if you use Qt like I did, you're shipping libstdc++, some other crap and Qt.
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Microsoft used to ship a Linux binary for Teams, but they stopped doing that. Guess the tech was lost.
It sucked.
Download Edge for Linux and use the PWA. It's still crap but at least it kind of works mostly.
I'm not usually one to defend Microsoft, but since Teams works great in a browser, I actually prefer it that way. My video conference doesn't need access to my whole filesystem and an opacity layer that prevents me from seeing what it does. I actually applaud them for supporting browsers as well as they do.
Yes, except it only worked some of the time on some of the distros (mainly Ubuntu/Debian variants of a certain vintage).
With the AI, we can finally have the year of desktop Linux.
Nonetheless, it's the year og the linux desktop!
Yeah idk what OpenAI was thinking. Just going off their own claims… OpenAI must be filled with bozos to not be able to utilize their own supposed product capabilities…
Same with Anthropic and their "support" team, which seems to be Claude 0.1 run on a commodore 64 in the basement...
It's the exact opposite. They picked the easiest way, done countless times just fine by everyone else and still failed
AppImage, yawn.
I think they were joking...
What problems are there with appimages?
Yet I have to install a not very famous, maybe unmaintained daemon to get basic system integration
It is already pre installed in most distrosk