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   On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:13:35 -0000 (UTC), Ian wrote:   
      
   > Yes, Linux is becoming the new Windows - if you want something to   
   > "just work", rather than become a project in itself.   
      
   The difference is, that was never true of Windows: it’s just that   
   people had long experience with an ever-growing collection of   
   voodoo/black-magic tricks (e.g. registry edits) to get things working.   
      
   > Unfortunately there are still at least two major factions in the   
   > Linux world, the debian/Ubuntu-like and the RedHat/Fedora-like, and   
   > if your chosen tool was developed by fans of one camp you're on a   
   > hiding to nothing trying to use it on the rival distribution.   
      
   Most command-line/scripting tools are very much in common. The package   
   managers may be different, but that’s not a major stumbling block.   
      
   > Yes, some things really are truly portable, but not everything, and   
   > the higher up the functionality-stack you go the less portable it   
   > seems to be - understandably.   
      
   Can you give examples of such interoperability issues, other than   
   perhaps GUI-based ones?   
      
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