Hello everyone!
Perhaps the title isn’t at all clear in what it specifically means, so here it goes…
After reading this section of the forum, it looks like, at least to me, that there is an inherent problem between the base distribution used for building Flax and what people here are using.
Now, my experience with using Flax on Linux has been flawless. Time ago, with Fedora, no problem at all. At the time of this writing, I’m on Alma Linux. The only thing that needed my intervention was installing .Net (dotnet) packages and Flax just worked. No errors, no crashes, just worked.
Both the distributions I used are RedHat downstreams. Fedora is directly under RH, like their testing bed for the future of RHEL, while Alma Linux is an exact clone of current RHEL, 1:1. The difference is that Alma Linux’s foundation is WAY more approachable and easy going than having to deal with Fedora’s, so much so that I myself have joined AL’ SIG (Special Interest Group) Media and Entertainment, made my contributions, and saw them integrated in a pretty short time. Not only that, but support with infrastructure and other issues is snappy.
One of the core goals of this Foundation is to make AL the go-to distro for the M&E industry, also for the “small guys”, providing a dedicated little app where we have curated a pretty nice list of software for use in the industry. It’s available here if you want to check it out.
Also, I personally really would like to not have Ubuntu involved with the creation of Flax. Canonical (the company that ships Ubuntu) is pretty much the Microsoft of the Linux world, and their commitment in turning good software into bad software is astounding. They don’t deserve to be recommended as the go-to platform for beginners or “default” Linux anymore.
This is a call to @mafiesto4 : Alma Linux is community driven, has devs ready to help and support, and they would be glad to support a project like Flax, not only in helping you sort things out, but also promoting Flax by including it as a recommended good software choice, and including an automated dependencies installation so that Flax just run with no user intervention.
I know, everyone would like to have their own favorite distro to be the base one for building Flax, so that “the best distro of all” has no issues out of the box. I’m just reporting what I’ve experienced with the devs at this specific distribution, and I feel like i can recommend it to everyone.