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I do have to wonder how many people who are complaining about the "Fragmentation" for development are actually developers... as I'm hearing a lot of lack of clue from that side here...
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I find that publishing for linux is dead simple.
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Originally posted by garegin View Postthe problem is that windows is like a petri dish for developers, while Linux distros are on of the worse platforms to develop for. there are no IDEs on par with Visual Studio or XCode and the base OS is fragmented between different glibc, gcc, kernel and x.org versions. the result is that it is more work to publish an app for Linux, than for Windows or OS X.
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True, but the best solution there is to target a specific distro (and version). There really is nothing wrong with doing that, although many people will squeal.
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the problem is that windows is like a petri dish for developers, while Linux distros are on of the worse platforms to develop for. there are no IDEs on par with Visual Studio or XCode and the base OS is fragmented between different glibc, gcc, kernel and x.org versions. the result is that it is more work to publish an app for Linux, than for Windows or OS X.
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It's kinda the same on Windows also. There are 400 million different applications that all do the same thing.
Granted there is usually one that is a cut above the rest... but a lot of times those are coming from a corporation.
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Originally posted by MartinN View Postthank you for getting and belaboring my point... It's like Linux people are afflicted with some disease ... or maybe just afflicted with a lack of strong leadership.
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Originally posted by zanny View PostI think the worst part is we reinvent the wheel (compositors, audio engines, text editors, terminals, etc) without making one sony vegas quality non-linear video editor, not keeping GIMP up to snuff against photoshop, not making sure Blender is better than Maya, and not keeping any of the dozens of FOSS game engines up to snuff against competitors like Unreal 3.
Too much effort is put into repeating the same work on the same things that, albeit, are essential to the desktop experience, but there is a significant lack of end-user products that can compete and draw new recruits to Linux space instead of everyone just sitting on Windows due to software.
God help the Linux movement!
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I believe there are several compositors that are work in progress. Even very experimental stuff like that one that was even featured on phoronix a while ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FjuPn7MXMs
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