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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think the bigger issue is the variety of distros that end up not being compatible. Even if you overall have a lot of Linux users if they, for the sake of argument, distribute evenly between all distros then it's still a lot of effort to code. The only difference is that the argument will change from "Linux has a small userbase" to "Distribution X has a small userbase".

Linux doesn't just need more users to be worthwhile to develop for, it also needs a distro agnostic solution to run software. That or significantly reducing (or streamlining) the amount of distros so the developers would have far less configurations to account for.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Flatpaks and nix packages work on pretty much every distro.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 10 months ago

That's why I mentioned both 🙂