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by rendaw
978 days ago
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As the post mentions, the de-facto official way to distribute games on linux is as a windows binary run via wine/proton. AFAIK this mainly stems from issues in how linux deals with graphics drivers - you can static link everything _except_ opengl. This is similarly an issue with containerizing graphical apps: last I read you needed to have the same version graphics libraries both on the host system and _within_ the container due to the weird linking issues. Does anyone know if there's any efforts to improve this situation? Is there some ideological issue in linux that prevents standardizing or presenting a generic interface? (Or more background, my details are very vague here) |
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It absolutely isn't unless you hate your users.
> you can static link everything _except_ opengl
You don't need to statically link OpenGL - it has a stable ABI and most functions need to be loaded at runtime anyway.
> This is similarly an issue with containerizing graphical apps: last I read you needed to have the same version graphics libraries both on the host system and _within_ the container due to the weird linking issues.
You don't need to worry about containers when distributing native Linux games.
> Does anyone know if there's any efforts to improve this situation? Is there some ideological issue in linux that prevents standardizing or presenting a generic interface?
Yes, for one you could stop spreading FUD.