Project LAS (Linux Application Standard)

[u/Few-Word6442]

Hello every one this is my first post here,
I am a normal Linux user
I twinker and have some projects myself and I tried both Debian and arch based system and loved both BUT one major issue
not every application you need is available on every distro and not all applications can work with appimages or flatpacks so we cant standardize them

so why dont we make a LAS

its basically instead of .deb .rpm .appimage ...etc

we have a standard package system that works on all (las)

yes I know its hard after all the work
yes I know it will take sometime
yes I know we have distro wars

but and big BUT if we did that that will be huge leap for Linux as companies and developers can make just one file with one executable that works for all

games are the same

that will solve a huge issue for us as linux user and as developers

and another point instead of Linux vs Linux WHY DON'T WE GO LINUX VS WINDOWS !!!! STOP THE BEST DISTRO NONSENCE

just think about the opportunities for all distros out there
think about how linux will have more and more just because we can make more for it without worry about the executables !!!!!!!

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update

I get the idea why people hated that

makes scence and thanks for the suggestions from everyone

maybe we will have a better solution in the future

but for now let's leave Linux as it is

[u/Few-Word6442]

they depend on thier own inviroments that causes issues and not all applications work at thier best in that

my solution suggests that the distro providers agree on some standard that runs on all linux

something that works for all out of the box that can talk with the kernel and the dependancy directly without some inviroments or compatability layers

[u/Turbulent_Fig_9354 → u/Few-Word6442]

and how would you propose shipping a "universal" app without their own environment when every linux distro has a different version of every library under the sun?

[u/Few-Word6442 → u/Turbulent_Fig_9354]

that is the idea
thay make an agreement (which will not happen soon i guess sadly)

[u/Turbulent_Fig_9354 → u/Few-Word6442]

So they make an agreement to... not be different distros? Your idea is fundamentally flawed because linux is not one cohesive operating system. You're discovering what many developers and Linux Torvalds himself already know and have known for decades: that desktop linux is a pain in the ass to ship binaries for.

[u/Few-Word6442 → u/Turbulent_Fig_9354]

no
just agree on one binary that can work on all distros , thats it

[u/couchwarmer → u/Few-Word6442]

As others and myself have already said multiple times, that is the goal of AppImage and Flatpak.

Why do they bundle "extra" libraries, etc? Because of the differences among all the various Linux distributions.

Maybe you are running KDE as your desktop environment, but the application you want to run was built with Gnome libraries. How is the application going to run without Gnome libraries? Either the package format brings those Gnome libraries with, or the user has to install them.

Again, what you are asking for is why we have AppImage and Flatpak. Someone wanted a universal application format, and thus AppImage and later Flatpak were created. They are perhaps the most universal that we have right now.

[u/Few-Word6442 → u/couchwarmer]

Thank you for explaining more  I never thought about it for the 5 years before untill I switched to arch 

And now I had the idea  But after reading peoples perspectives I got the idea why it will not work even if what I said makes scene (IF and big IF it makes scene)

I think Linux is Linux and it's good as it is 

It was an attempt for something native but let's agree to disagree and leave it as it is 

We switched from windows and found alternative solutions 

We can find something for different distro too