alt Hacker Newsglibc is the main reason linux on the desktop has such a low adoption rate.
you cant just go and download a precompiled blob from a website and run it everywhere, like you can with macOS and Windows.
glibc only targets one audience, one which can recompile its apps when needed.
What linux badly needs is a stable ABI for Userspace Apps, and Win32 is just that sadly.
> you cant just go and download a precompiled blob from a website and run it everywhere, like you can with macOS and Windows.
Sure you can! It's called AppImage or Flatpak or Snap!
I'm also not sure why compiling is treated as some taboo? It's not like Windows where it's actually impossible to set up a toolchain. Your distro comes with one installed! So that means you can run a single installer file, just like in Windows, except this is a shell script or anything else—and it can just compile and link everything for you, quite easily! The user doesn't have to know or understand how this works at all.
Why is that bad? It's bad to run binary blobs...! It's good to tailor your software to your specific environment and hardware!