holy bejeezus, I would not go anywhere near that. Qt is not a programmer’s dream but it’s a hell of a lot better

Figure out your mass deployment strategy and the tooling that you’ll need to support it. The reason why Ubuntu and rhel are popular in these kinds of sectors is because of this tooling

I work in a company that deals with both commercial and government (military) software. The government is becoming more and more fixated on the software supply chain, or sw dependencies so to speak.

Existing dependencies are largely getting a pass for now, but with each new one I need to give a justification for. This includes the license of that software. I can’t use GPL at work.

This.

From the perspective of software preservation, we need this. Sometimes we won’t have the source, and just need it to work while also getting security updates.

From the perspective of software delivery: read up on JangaFX’s recent article about this topic and the problems they run into delivering software in the present

Does anybody know why ARM laptops can’t provide the same device tree info as all x86 devices?

sucks to hear, but thanks for your info!!

I figure that people are able to tell from context that I mean GNU/Linux

Sounds like it’s possible, but maybe with a backup phone. Unfortunately I do have some apps that I need to be able to run which only support iOS and android