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by zeroname 2816 days ago
> What distributions have you been using? I rarely have a problem with Debian or Fedora in this manner.

Fedora and especially Arch are big offenders. Debian is so "stable" that I can't install newer software through the provided packages anyway, so that's trading off one failure over another.

> Get your package into Debian and Fedora...

If you stay inside the FOSS bubble, of course maybe some maintainer will eventually spend their precious time packaging some version of your application in some (sometimes broken) fashion. I don't think that's a good solution even for FOSS, but for non-FOSS it's not even on the table.
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linuxftw 2816 days ago
> Debian is so "stable" that I can't install newer software through the provided packages anyway, so that's trading off one failure over another.

I've already addressed this, it's pretty trivial to recompile most major software packages. You can also pull those packages from testing or unstable.

> but for non-FOSS it's not even on the table.

Sucks to be a proprietary software vendor. You have to do all this hard work for people to not buy your product anyway.

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zeroname 2816 days ago
> I've already addressed this, it's pretty trivial to recompile most major software packages.

Is it not obvious that outside of the Linux bubble people are not looking forward to invest their precious time into such things?

> Sucks to be a proprietary software vendor. You have to do all this hard work for people to not buy your product anyway.

Of course the alternative is to just ignore Linux users like most proprietary software vendors do.

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