@aeva @puppygirlhornypost2 right, even to the extent that one could, with a truly unreasonable investment of effort, make a "linux version" of some software, there's a vast gulf between trying to do that for a server-side thing that mostly runs in Docker and exists in a highly abstract computation space, something that integrates tightly with server-side stuff like systemd, and then something that actually makes pictures and sounds on a "desktop"

@glyph @puppygirlhornypost2 side note, this straw poll informed my current thinking of how best to do the thing: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/111880256412614427

I used to think that authoring a guix or nix package would be desirable, because guix and nix can be installed cooperatively on whichever distro and let me pretend Linux is a real platform. But that was what people wanted *the least*

@cthos @glyph @puppygirlhornypost2 oof I didn't think about that. I don't really have a good read on how popular immutable distros are or whether they're likely to be the standard at some point in the future.

@aeva @cthos @puppygirlhornypost2 FWIW the _massive_ improvement to reliability when macOS added SIP suggests to me that immutable distros are definitely the future

@aeva @glyph @puppygirlhornypost2 I know Silverblue tracks installs by default (unless you disable that option) so there are probably some numbers floating around. I also don't know how popular they are but I've been very happy with how "me-proof" Bazzite has been.

@glyph @cthos @puppygirlhornypost2 well, I'm open minded to the concept, I'm just mostly unfamiliar with it.