Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I don’t care about 10KB or even 100KB of disk space per installed program if it saves humanity the collective millions of hours wasted on .dll/.so issues.

    If your program needs libcirnfucb to run, it should be in the same directory as your program, and you are responsible for putting it there for me. No other program in my computer needs libcirnfucb, there’s no efficiency gains and now I have to go to some random website from the 90s and find where they put the damn download link and now I have to learn all about how libcirnfucb manages their versions and if I am in the correct webpage, because the project is abandonware that was formed 10 years ago and now it is in another 90s looking website that has a name completely unrelated to libcirnfucb.

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      12 hours ago

      I don’t care about 10KB or even 100KB of disk space

      there’s no efficiency gains

      Some care and there are, hence that approach. You might like snap, appimage or that works-on-my-computer-in-a-box thing called docker.

      Or GoboLinux.