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Make Apps for Linux
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#3The article could do with a few examples.
I'm not aware of anyone who is making a distro who should instead be making an application. Maybe LinuxCNC if you squint?? But that has very specific kernel requirements which are arguably best served by a custom distro.
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#4This has always been an issue for Linux adoption.
Somebody I know (not in tech) wanted to switch from Windows to Linux and I said:
"Which one?"
It's the same as Mastodon.
"Which instance?"
The answer is usually the biggest / most popular instance or distro, but not many applications the masses use are on Linux, the same as there is not many interesting people on Mastodon for people to switch over to it.
Applications are the barrier to mass adoption here for Linux unfortunately, and the paralysis of choice is the double edged sword for the massive amount of Linux distros.
Thousands of years of effort spread across many distributions that not many people would use.
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#5Maybe I'm just too ignorant to know the pattern that determines whether I need to specify 'dev' and 'version' on a package or some random trailing '1' or '0', but the first linux distro with a sensible and consistent naming scheme for packages is the one that wins my heart.
`libgnutls-dev` `libgtk-3-0` `libwayland-server0` `libxcb1` `libx11-6` `libffi-dev` `libncurses5-dev`
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#6This has always been an issue for Linux adoption. Somebody I know (not in tech) wanted to switch from Windows to Linux and I said: "Which one?" It's the same as Mastodon. "Which instance?" The answer is usually the biggest / most popular instance or distro, but not many applications the masses use are on Linux, the same as there is not many interesting people on Mastodon for people to switch over to it. Applications…
It’s because the answer is “just pick one”. Many people have already made the decision before you and unless you have special requirements. You’ll probably be fine.
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#7This has always been an issue for Linux adoption. Somebody I know (not in tech) wanted to switch from Windows to Linux and I said: "Which one?" It's the same as Mastodon. "Which instance?" The answer is usually the biggest / most popular instance or distro, but not many applications the masses use are on Linux, the same as there is not many interesting people on Mastodon for people to switch over to it. Applications…
Unfortunately it still takes a lot of effort to actually switch and not just poke around to see what's what. Most things do work these days but inevitably you will have to open the dreaded terminal (or be forced into runlevel 3 because 4 now fails as your new TV doesn't play well with your gpu)
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#9This has always been an issue for Linux adoption. Somebody I know (not in tech) wanted to switch from Windows to Linux and I said: "Which one?" It's the same as Mastodon. "Which instance?" The answer is usually the biggest / most popular instance or distro, but not many applications the masses use are on Linux, the same as there is not many interesting people on Mastodon for people to switch over to it. Applications…
Just say Download Ubuntu and sign up at Mastodon.world.
If they push back that's not a problem. If they're actually noob, they got the info they wanted out of you, which was where to start.
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#10The article could do with a few examples. I'm not aware of anyone who is making a distro who should instead be making an application. Maybe LinuxCNC if you squint?? But that has very specific kernel requirements which are arguably best served by a custom distro.
any desktop environment is effectively just an application that's trivially to install via one or two clicks or commands. Never made sense to me why there's derivatives of derivatives that just ship a different DE.