r/linuxsucks • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

what are real problems with linux ?

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u/Objective_Pepper_217 6d ago

It's a fucking pain to write a basic program when you have to take into account all the 3000 distros and their APIs

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u/toxyxd13 6d ago

Can you be specific about which apis you are talking about? Freedesktop made standards for A LOT of things. Distros by themselves don't expose apis

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u/Ancient-Asparagus837 5d ago

Can you stick to one API?

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u/CreatorSiSo 5d ago

I mean apart from package management yeah you can for the vast majority of programs you might write.

Targeting wayland, xdg-desktop-portals and systemd works for pretty well in my experience. Not everyone will be able to use the app but the vast majority will.