I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.

Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.

This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Debian stable + flatpaks.

    I want to be on the latest Firefox and to have the latest LibreOffice and some other apps. I want the latest applications, but I don’t want them come at the expense of having my system randomly lose its Wifi at the next boot or some other trash.

    FreeBSD had this figured out 25 years ago. Separate the base from the user apps. When I was a teenager, I built -current ports on top of -stable FreeBSD and it was fine.

    Now we have the equivalent option in Linux, and it comes from a centrally managed repository i.e. I’m not downloading tarballs and managing my own packages. I’m too old for that crap.