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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] Firnin@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm no developer myself, but it sounds like a huge hassle to add your software to the official repos of the most popular distributions instead of providing an .AppImage and/or flatpak

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, you contact a maintainer. They do it for you. You just have to supply code and licensing info and stuff

[–] Firnin@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. That sounds easy. Is this a one-time thing or do you have to do this for every update you push?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the update. If you add new lib depends, they'll ask for the licensing of them (and if you include a closed source blob they might kick you out).

But most of the time you just do your own Dev and they'll update without needing to communicate to them.

[–] Firnin@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the insight :)