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Nobody Interesting
Mar 29, 2013

One way, dead end... Street signs are such fitting metaphors for the human condition.


FAT32 SHAMER posted:

it’s surprising that they haven’t just come together and come up with standard binary containers. even just .exe and .dmg standins where the .exe standin is non-containerised and the .dmg standin is containerised would be huge

Thats what flatpak is, and also appimage

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Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
if Linux users could all agree on a unified standard they wouldn’t be Linux users

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



Nobody Interesting posted:

Thats what flatpak is, and also appimage

right, but isn’t that also what snap and deb are too? lol

psiox
Oct 15, 2001

Babylon 5 Street Team

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

if Linux users could all agree on a unified standard they wouldn’t be Linux users

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

system deez nutz

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

if Linux users could all agree on a unified standard they wouldn’t be Linux users

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Cybernetic Vermin
Apr 18, 2005

idk, app images now being linux systems is a clever ploy to make linux users embrace proper application distribution images. basically linux on the desktop right?

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