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minus-squareswooosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-26 months agoThat is really cool. I wish I’d read more of such posts on “how do we get there, how did we get here”. Most important answer: After deciding to support Ubuntu and X11 and Wayland I hope it’ll work in distrobox such that you can run it on every platform
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-26 months agoThat was a hypothetical illustrating the amount of choices one had to make to port to Linux. So far their decision is to just release a tarball.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoDistrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.
minus-squareswooosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoWhy? I’d use it for analysis and prose. I think it’ll be ok in distrobox.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoIt is a separate Distro. I used it for running VLC already and for sure it works, but it isnt really a good solution.
minus-squareswooosh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoOk. So far I only use it for cli tools like pdlaftex, typst, R, and others. So far it works great. I assume the same for gui apps. Theming will be off but that’s not a real issue as long as the app works.
That is really cool. I wish I’d read more of such posts on “how do we get there, how did we get here”.
Most important answer:
I hope it’ll work in distrobox such that you can run it on every platform
That was a hypothetical illustrating the amount of choices one had to make to port to Linux. So far their decision is to just release a tarball.
Distrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.
Why?
I’d use it for analysis and prose. I think it’ll be ok in distrobox.
It is a separate Distro. I used it for running VLC already and for sure it works, but it isnt really a good solution.
Ok. So far I only use it for cli tools like pdlaftex, typst, R, and others. So far it works great. I assume the same for gui apps. Theming will be off but that’s not a real issue as long as the app works.