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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Zed editor: Linux when? (zed.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like they’ve got couple of things wrong or they base of outdated information.

The packaging, yeah it’s still a mess if you absolutely have to put it in a native system package, but building something like Flatpak would generally be better. Or just build binaries against some common runtime like Ubuntu LTS and other distros will figure out, there’s really not much more here. It really sounds like someone wrote it in 2000’s about all distros being completely different and it’s expected to fall apart if you attempt to run it on say Fedora. They’re really not that different today. Also, universal package formats exist.

They completely skip XDG desktop portals that can provide at least huge chunk of functionality they need. There’s really no need to talk to GTK or QT directly. simply require portals and use its function for choosing file or directory. That’s it, you’ve got native file picker that also works in sandboxes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

They're showing the native file picker which using XDG desktop portals.

I'm also fairly sure that the "(but of course there are competing standards)" line referred to Flatpak vs. Snap (vs. AppImage).