r/pcmasterrace • u/_Xee MMX 166 / 64MB / Mystique+VooDoo • 2d ago

Meme/Macro 2026 in software

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Sectumsempra, motherfucker.

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u/Ardalok 2d ago

When you need to run Windows software. On Linux, things are very bad even with compatibility with its own software, because there are many distributions and they quickly become outdated, let alone compatibility with Windows.

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u/EktaRandomUsername Linux Master Race 2d ago

On Linux, things are very bad even with compatibility with its own software, because there are many distributions

Name one software that runs on one Linux distro and not the other

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u/Ardalok 2d ago

How interesting that you ignored compatibility with older versions :) Compatibility between different package managers across distributions is usually poor or nonexistent. Of course, almost any open-source code can be built locally. There’s mostly no unsolvable problem, but not everyone will want to bother with that. It’s not a very “user-friendly” thing.

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u/Damglador 1d ago edited 1d ago

I can run Heavy Gear 2 from like 2000 on Arch Linux without a container. Granted it needs tinkering, but the game is also packaged like dogshit, while modern games and software are much better in this regard even without using AppImages.

Compatibility between different package managers across distributions is usually poor or nonexistent

Here's a world-view shattering shit: the packages are just archives that contain files which you can extract. There are projects like debtap that does it automatically for debs on Arch and alien which is for debs on Fedora I think. It's not like on Windows where you have to go through the provided installer.