Personally I haven’t. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it’s whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.
Correct me if I’m wrong, since I’m no developer myself, but it sounds like a huge hassle to add your software to the official repos of the most popular distributions instead of providing an .AppImage and/or flatpak
Nah, you contact a maintainer. They do it for you. You just have to supply code and licensing info and stuff
Oh, okay. That sounds easy. Is this a one-time thing or do you have to do this for every update you push?
Depends on the update. If you add new lib depends, they’ll ask for the licensing of them (and if you include a closed source blob they might kick you out).
But most of the time you just do your own Dev and they’ll update without needing to communicate to them.
Thank you for the insight :)