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BREAK NEWS!!!

In the late night of 1024, suddenly, someone lost a link and a sentence "Linux QQ released" in the QQ group, and everyone appeared one after another in the quiet QQ group. For a time, the group was as lively as the pot, and everyone picked up the beloved earth pipa Linux, all kinds of screenshots and test messages flew together, and the bedbugs complained together.

Why is it so lively? Because one of the main complaints that Linux desktops are not favored by daily users in China is, "there is no QQ!" Using QQ in Linux has been a hassle since 10 years ago-- yes, 10 years ago-- when an intern was said to have stopped and stopped using Linux QQ. Over the past decade, China's Linux community has made all kinds of efforts and attempts, such as the blocked libqq, and there are also gradually explored and improved Wine QQ programs. All kinds of Linux enthusiasts will summarize or sort out a secret book of Linux QQ after entering Linux. Of course, with the maturity of various domestic Linux operating systems, they have also provided a variety of mature Linux QQ solutions-at least they can use them. However, all of these always have the regret of tickling boots.

Well, I'm sure you're in a hurry, so here's the download link for Linux QQ:

Https://im.qq.com/linuxqq/download.html

After ten years of life and death, Linux QQ suddenly came back to life!

While downloading and installing, let's continue to talk about Linux QQ.

According to official sources, this is a "new return of Linux QQ" and supports "support for x64, ARM64, MIPS64", "each architecture supports one or more of Debian, Red Hat, Arch Linux, and other distributions", and also "optimizes the messaging experience and improves messaging capabilities". The version is the obvious "Linux QQ 2.0.0 Beta", compared with a decade ago. The last public release is "QQ for Linux 1.0 Beta1" (there is said to be an unannounced version of Beta2).

The reason why it supports ARM64, MIPS64, I think this should be the extra support for mips64el and arm64.

According to your feedback, as the first release ten years later, this update has a few highlights, but it still follows the previous version, and there are also some bug. Some students can still complete the experience of the basic functions of QQ after several restarts and input method adaptation.

The release of the new version of Linux QQ has made many geeks shout "lifetime". Linux is a favorite for developers, but it has been difficult to get new users for Linux versions of QQ and Wechat because of historical reasons such as Chinese office habits. After all, once your boss wants to send you a file, you find that you can't easily transfer it to your computer, or there are problems in more scenarios, which will deter new users of Linux.

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The release of Linux QQ 2.0 on the programmer's Day on October 24th makes people feel a little ridiculous, and it even makes people think that it may just be a flash activity, and frequent disconnections make people worry about whether Linux QQ will not work again on the 25th. With the release of the 1024 programmer's Day, Linux QQ can reappear in a nostalgic form. But, similarly, the release of this holiday also makes people feel that this matter does not seem to be taken as seriously as believed, casting a shadow over the future of Linux QQ.

Moreover, Tencent is not a charitable organization, for a company like Tencent, whether it will be difficult to generate cash flow for a long time, and the long-term maintenance of minority operating systems is still unknown, it is impossible to believe in the future of Linux QQ.

Ecology determines everything about the operating system.

In the past two years, the independently developed operating system has been constantly brushing the screen, and we have cheered for the independently developed operating system again and again. But after the best part, what's left?

I have always stressed that the operating system does not sell the system itself, but the ecology it produces, and the users who fail to pay for the system itself. Just like I have tried many times to transfer from iPhone to Andorid and from macOS to Windows, but, as I have summed up after each failure, I cannot abandon iPhone and macOS completely, because the ecology brought by them is that I cannot migrate to Android, and I have to face the reality that I have to face it: in the end, I have returned to the ecology built by iPhone.

The same is true for Linux, where the demands of Linux server users are clear, simple and straightforward, and most scenarios can be covered. On the other hand, there may be tens of thousands of different types of requirements for desktop products, which makes the product manager can not foresee the demand problems during the design, which is also a normal problem.

Looking back, what else does Linux need to capture the desktop market? What we need is not just a Linux QQ, we need to provide more people with Wechat, office suites and other software on Linux. Without these software, it will be difficult for us to get users past the first level of entry: how do I log on to QQ / Wechat and communicate with my colleagues and family. If he finds out that I use Linux, but I can't communicate using QQ / Wechat, then what's the point of using Linux?

For Linux, in addition to adapting to the software we are familiar with, there is also a need for manufacturers to develop exclusive killer users for Linux, so as to better promote the development of an operating system.

Linux is far from becoming a popular operating system, how many QQ Wechat is still missing?

If Linux QQ continues to be updated, it will be good news for Linux. Some applications that do well and do not do well may reconsider creating their own version of Linux. In the past, there may not have been such an opportunity.

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