• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Don’t we have Flatpak as a solution to this? Why don’t developers or Valve make use of Flatpaks for Linux native games? Or is there a licensing issue?

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      10 hours ago

      Not really, no. Flat packs still need the host GPU, kernel driver and more.

      I sometimes build software and opensource is easy for Linux. "Just compile once for fedora 40,41,42 and 4 Ubuntu versions, look how to build for Debian because the compiler there is 8 years old and then do that for very major update. Forever