It's not a platform, it's a protocol. There is a desktop application to interact with it, and since it's all p2p and decentralized it can't be shut down. :)
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Whatever dude. Im not arguing over semantics.
The desktop Linux lbry client didn't work for me. You got it to run?
I'm new-ish to Linux (have had to keep Windows for the Adobe software). I know the Windows client works well: