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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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IMHO the answer is social, not technical:
Backwarts compatibility/legacy code is not fun, and so unless you throw a lot of money at the problem (RHEL), people don't do it in their free time.
The best way to distribute a desktop app on Linux is to make it Win32 (and run it with WINE) ... :-P (Perhaps Flatpak will change this.)