In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape
Ok. So far I only use it for cli tools like pdlaftex, typst, R, and others. So far it works great. I assume the same for gui apps. Theming will be off but that’s not a real issue as long as the app works.
That is really cool. I wish I’d read more of such posts on “how do we get there, hoe did we get here”.
Most important answer:
I hope it’ll work in distrobox such that you can run it on every platform
Distrobox is not a good solution. But when there is an APT package, packagers can easily use their binary and create RPMs etc.
Why?
I’d use it for analysis and prose. I think it’ll be ok in distrobox.
It is a separate Distro. I used it for running VLC already and for sure it works, but it isnt really a good solution.
Ok. So far I only use it for cli tools like pdlaftex, typst, R, and others. So far it works great. I assume the same for gui apps. Theming will be off but that’s not a real issue as long as the app works.
That was a hypothetical illustrating the amount of choices one had to make to port to Linux. So far their decision is to just release a tarball.