While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers:
Patreon. Plain Donations:
PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone with no article paywalls. We also don't have tons of adverts, there's also no tracking and we respect your privacy. Just good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers:


This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone with no article paywalls. We also don't have tons of adverts, there's also no tracking and we respect your privacy. Just good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
Popular this week
Contact
Latest Comments
-
Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
- stormtux -
Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
- Eike -
Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
- Purple Library Guy -
Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
- Whitewolfe80 -
Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2
- Whitewolfe80 - See more comments
Latest Forum Posts
- New Desktop Screenshot Thread
- Avehicle7887 - What would get you to use the Forum more?
- tuubi - Weekend Players' Club 6/9/23
- Pengling - Linus, creator of Linux, being “woke” as heck
- rojimboo - Empty Clip - FOSS top-down shooter action RPG
- jazztickets - See more posts
Unfortunately containerization took the easy route and is just passing around “all-in-one” blobs. I hope this changes eventually but there is a lot of work to be done. I emailed the author about the possible ideas in the above blog post and how dependency hell can be fixed.
View PC info
Well worth reading, although how Linux goes about simplifying this is anyone's guess.
Will spend more time on his linked articles.
Was hoping he would go into more detail about Wine and Proton. Or even packaging Wine/Proton as Flatpak. Maybe next time.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
View PC info
Sure so is Docker and handful of other packaging systems. Doesn’t mean it’s good or here to stay just because Valve shoves it down your throat.