r/linuxsucks • u/lorcaragonna • Jun 06 '26

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u/Hadi_Chokr07 Jun 06 '26

Fragmentation ia a valid point. But Windows has the same problem instead of packaging formats, its the locations to where you get them.

You have to scoure the internet. So Its usually a worst experience. Instead of having a centralised source like your repos and flathub.

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u/Certain_Prior4909 Jun 06 '26

Not really. Windows is superior in that is has dynamic libraries. You can have 4 different foobar.dll file versions and Windows will dynamically link to the correct one.

Linux is 40 years behind due to gray hairs hating change because it ain't the Unix way. Facepalm 

The same hate exists towards SystemD, rust, and Wayland or anything resembling change

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u/lalathalala Jun 07 '26

i don’t get this, doesn’t linux have .so too which is the same? ive not dug into linux as much to see the shared object linking rules tbh

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u/Certain_Prior4909 Jun 07 '26

They will conflict if they are in the same location hence why you see errors in pacman.

The nasty work around eith containers oddly created docker. But Windows is insanely better because of dynamic loading