The problem with targeting Linux

Linux unlike MacOS and Windows doesn't have a standardised SDK. This forces devs to either natively compile there or create SDK/sysroot ourselves.

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This creates some issues, firstly everyone targets different sets of packages for shared linking, this causes glibc version mismatches and similar issues.

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In the end, why are we dealing with this, why can't Debian and Ubuntu Devs just collaborate to release a tarball for arm64 and x64 desktop. We could just download it and set the flags and everything works.

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But currently we have to create a sysroot via docker, weird system packages with Debian etc. None of them are really ideal.

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The rest of the Devs who target mini-pc's or try to run Linux on milkv-duos can build their own sysroot from scratch, while we can just move to actual work.

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