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Sky Go on Linux Mint

COOK21 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 12:09:23 GMT

Anyone got any ideas how to get the sky go app to work on a laptop running linux mint?

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

TimmyBGood — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:08:41 GMT

Given there's no Go client for Linux, I'd imagine a whole lot of messing about with either Windows or Android emulation and absolutely no guarantee of success. Unfortunately the 'Free' in FOSS only applies where you don't value your own time...

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

TimmyBGood — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:58:28 GMT

@COOK21

Oh, and good luck getting a DRM implementation on Linux which Go will accept ; )

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

Annie+UK — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:53:19 GMT

@COOK21 wrote:

Anyone got any ideas how to get the sky go app to work on a laptop running linux mint?

You don't, I use an Amazon Fire to access the Sky Go app via the Google play store

Sky don't support Linux 😞

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

TimmyBGood — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:01:49 GMT

@COOK21

Note also that all historic references to 'Silverlight' in this context are obsolete.

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

TimmyBGood — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:16:05 GMT

@Annie+UK wrote:

Sky don't support Linux 😞

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

Andy215 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:04:09 GMT

@COOK21 You may know but both Android and IOS are vision of Linux (Free) and are supported by Sky. Also Microsoft has stated that they will use more free software in Windows in the future, Edge being a rebrand of Chrome. The reason that sky has not got an app for Linux is that the user base is not big enough for them to create one yet.

Re: Sky Go on Linux Mint

TimmyBGood — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 13:46:14 GMT

@COOK21

iOS is based on OSX which is itself descended from BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) UNIX, not Linux.

Edge is built on the Chromium codebase rather than being a rebrand of Google Chrome.