[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> Why do you think you can't ship your non-system-provided dependencies on Linux?

I don't think that. It's just that:

> but if you're shipping all non-system-provided dependencies, there shouldn't be anything that points outside of your directory other than libc

In other words you have to ship most of what other operating systems consider to be part of the base system, because Linux doesn't provide a standardized basesystem at all. Hell, even depending on libc can be a problem, NixOS even manages to break AppImage because of how ld.so works, and to top it all off glibc abhors static linking.