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On 2026-01-23, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 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.
For the large part, it was (and mostly still is). And where hacks were
needed they were already known.
>> 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?
I'm talking about high-end applications, e.g. 3D modelling software,
video editing, media servers. At this level I just want to launch
the installer, click "yes" "yes" "yes", then get on learning / using
the tool, not spending a day tracking down some obscure dependency,
or hacking the config files because the binaries are in /usr/bin
instead of /opt/thing/bin or whatever.
--
Ian
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