You CAN'T make a "Linux app", because there is NO LINUX PLATFORM

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00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: Skillshare 01:47 What is a platform? 02:57 Linux isn't a platform 05:45 Linux has multiple platforms 07:47 Why do we need app platforms? 11:13 Parting Thoughts

But what's a platform, exactly? Basically, I'm talking about an application platform.

The best example that most people will be familiar with, will be in the smartphone world, with the iOS platform and the Android platform.

Problem is, there is NO Linux platform, and there has never been one.

That's simply because there is no "one Linux operating system". You have what we call Linux distributions, which can be very different from each other, not including the same systems, desktop environments, packages or libraries.

So application developers can't really develop an app for the Linux platform. They can develop an application that runs on Linux based operating systems, and makes use of some Linux features and libraries, but they have to make A LOT OF choices along the way.

Do they want to have a dependency on systemD, do they want to use GTK or Qt, or something else as the toolkit? Do they want to follow human interface guidelines for a desktop that uses this library? And once the app is done, they have to decide on the packaging format: do they want to try and get included in Debian's repos? In F ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MagNqxjKo-k