Is Linux support going?

scratchfoundation / scratch-flash

Open source version of the Scratch 2.0 project editor. This is the basis for the online and offline versions of Scratch found on the website.

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Is Linux support going? #1405

Closed bowstones closed 5 years ago

bowstones commented 5 years ago

You can't download Scratch 2.0 for Linux anymore. Is there a reason for this, and will there be Scratch 3.0 for Linux?

towerofnix commented 5 years ago

See LLK/scratch-www#1886:

Unfortunately Adobe stopped supporting Adobe AIR on Linux platforms in 2011. We have continued to provide a version of the Scratch 2.0 Offline Editor since then, but unfortunately more recent versions of Ubuntu and other major distributions of Linux have completely broken AIR compatibility to the point where we need to drop support. Our hope is that the Scratch 3.0 Offline Editor will be able to more sustainably support Linux (via Electron) in the future.