[fastball]

It would be cool if there was a system where linux users could install one version of Chromium that is kept up to date on their distro, and Tauri would check if that is available first and somehow use that as the webview, otherwise falling back to whatever the system ships.

So you could have multiple Tauri apps that all use the same Chromium under-the-hood (this also has benefits that security is maintained better, as it is no longer the responsibility of individual app developers to keep a bundled Chromium up-to-date).

And then if they wanted to, app developers could disable the fallback entirely, so if you don't have that Chromium package installed you just get an error message saying "please install this package". As this is linux we're talking about, I doubt that would be a very onerous demand for these users.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I wonder if electron could be used for that purpose. It's effectively chromium in a digestible webview format. Having an always up to date electron would be useful for various reasons