Compatibility Linux: Add support for older Linux Distros

[Keshav-writes-code]

🧢 Changes

made changes to the build workflow to build on ubuntu-22.04 instead of latest ubuntu-24

☕️ Reasoning

this change will lower the glic requirements and will allow it run on older linux distros

🎫 Affected issues

Fixes: #11484

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Linux build runners in the publish workflow from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 to improve compatibility with older Linux distributions by lowering the glibc requirements. The change affects both x64 and ARM64 Linux build targets.

Key Changes

• Downgrade Linux x64 build runner from ubuntu-24.04 to ubuntu-22.04
• Downgrade Linux ARM64 build runner from ubuntu-24.04-arm to ubuntu-22.04-arm
• Changes applied consistently across two workflow jobs: build-tauri and publish-tauri

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[Byron]

Thanks a lot for contributing!

I wish fixing this would be as easy as using an older ubuntu-22 image, but I do remember all of that being full of gotchas

Let me also check @slarse for a quick note with a thumbs up or down for whether to make a test Nightly build even. Your memory is definitely fresher than mine (even though I think I should know better 😅).

[Byron]

@Keshav-writes-code I think it would be good if you could catch up on #7671 (comment) .

[slarse]

Thanks a lot for contributing!

I wish fixing this would be as easy as using an older ubuntu-22 image, but I do remember all of that being full of gotchas

Let me also check @slarse for a quick note with a thumbs up or down for whether to make a test Nightly build even. Your memory is definitely fresher than mine (even though I think I should know better 😅).

With the current state of affairs, we should build for both Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04, as I've prepped for in #11412. As can be seen in the testing matrix I set up in #11412, building on Ubuntu 22.04 makes forward compatibility worse for the AppImage. I think the deb and rpm packages should fare somewhat better but I haven't tested them across any interesting range of hardware and OS. I've been meaning to get to that ASAP but life got in the way.

As WebKit have technically dropped support for Ubuntu 22.04, it's unclear for how long Ubuntu 22.04 will continue to be supported (it still seemingly is). So I don't think it's a good idea to drop the Ubuntu 24.04 build for that reason alone.

For #11412 to be merged we need the website updates mentioned here, and I can't do those.

@Keshav-writes-code There is a Discord thread over here for discussing Linux distro compatibility, if you want to join in.

[Byron]

My greatest of apologies for mismanaging this PR so badly. My memory was just too bad on this one as I didn't even think of looking for @slarse 's PRs to find the one that already implements this, and more.

Thus, I think it's best to close this PR in favor of #11412 .
Thanks for your understanding, and please, keep contributing your know-how and good-will to make the Linux distribution better, we need it :).
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