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by ilammy 1217 days ago
Open-source developers are not supposed to customize their applications for distributions. Leave that to distro's maintainers, they know more about that.

Closed source? Your users are paying you for the headache of making your software run wherever the users need it to run. The differences aren't really that big unless you're shipping something deep in the stack or have to support ancient systems. And you still have to test software everywhere.

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> Open-source developers are not supposed to customize their applications for distributions. Leave that to distro's maintainers, they know more about that.

That's great when the distro maintainers are packaging the software I want—and a problem when they aren't!

> Closed source? Your users are paying you for the headache of making your software run wherever the users need it to run.

"Okay, then I'll ignore Linux because the users who need it there are too much effort to support."