@mia @navi @puppygirlhornypost2 no, it is actually hard. I literally cannot build my main project (open source, built on a small set of open source dependencies, built for Liunx trying to avoid as many pitfalls as possible) on my laptop and run it on my desktop because one is running fedora and the other is an ubuntu LTS running an incompatible glibc. I literally cannot cross compile from Linux to Linux running on the same CPU architecture. This is an absolute clown show.

@aeva @puppygirlhornypost2 @navi missing the point. that has nothing to do with porting. if porting were a nightmare you would not be able to compile it on the other machine. if you have the source, none of this is a problem.

@aeva @puppygirlhornypost2 @navi i understand you just fine. but you aren’t using the source code. you build it on one system, then treat the result like a closed-source binary on the other.

@mia @puppygirlhornypost2 @navi ah, ok - so I'm understanding your meaning correctly, your point of view is that one shouldn't provide prebuilt binaries for linux *ever* even when the full source code is available, and that distro package managers distributing prebuilt binaries is essentially an implementation detail?