run installer or zip file are usually fine for most of the linux users which already represents a very small percentage of the user base. I may look into flatpak / snap again - there were a handful of issues last I checked. We would like to some day but that may take some time. most of our linux users are actually not the type that would be used to running something like dockerĪs for static compile - it’s not that easy due to the libraries that we license and use.

due to the direct hardware interaction that is non-trivial (both for us and the end-user).

I’ve actually looked into a docker container, but:

Given the way Qt (the C++ framework we use) is built for linux it can be hit-or-miss sometimes with having things in the right place for everything to work on distros other than those mentioned above. Anything beyond that can be hit or miss but it covers 98% of our linux user-base. Officially, our supported distros for linux are Ubuntu 16.04+ and Fedora 28+ and, for the most part, that is what our testing is limited to.

Lightburn linux