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Linux will remain a joke of a platform so long as people think shit like “statically linking and/or bundling graphics drivers with apps” is a sensible distribution practice
say it with me: Win32 is the stable Linux ABI
LOOK at what Linux packagers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the stable 3D graphics ABIs designed for dynamic linking we built for them:
@hikari it's gonna be unavoidable in many cases as long as vendors ship linux systems with massively-outdated core libraries (or lacking the userspace components of driver stacks altogether)
there've also been some big ABI compat misses (eg VAAPI broke ABI with 2.0, which meant bundling drivers was pretty much unavoidable during that transition)
@hikari wait, bundling graphics drivers is a thing (outside of Android)?
@bas not usually directly, but flatpak runtimes are almost this, and this is upsetting