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Linux has over 6% of the desktop market? Yes, you read that right - here's how (www.zdnet.com)
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Clickbaity title on the original article, but I think this is the most important point to consider from it:

After getting to 1% in approximately 2011, it took about a decade to double that to 2%. The jump from 2% to 3% took just over two years, and 3% to 4% took less than a year.

Get the picture? The Linux desktop is growing, and it's growing fast.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has been a big problem historically. Agreed.

But you cite the solution yourself. Flatpak is all you need for effective distribution of commercial apps. GPL has nothing to do with it. There are already commercial apps in FlatHub.

What is missing is “paid” commercial apps. We have no “take my money” App Store in Linux. I think FlatHub is working on it. Honestly, I am surprised a commercial company has not launched one yet. Well, other than Steam of course.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh really I had the impression if you have a GPLv3 dependency in the same pack it could be interpreted as distributing it with your code.

    Well thank TIL for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I know I am pointlessly late on this but…

    You do not distribute the Flatpak runtime or Flatpak itself. You can depend on it but it is distributed separately. Flatpak may download these dependencies at the same time as your app bundle but it is not downloaded from you. And the libraries you are linking to (like Glibc) are LGPL or even more permissive.

    If you put a GPL library into your application bundle, that could be a problem. But if your app is closed source, you are presumably not doing that.

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