A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

  • @[email protected]
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    711 months ago

    This is why im on the hunt for a new distro. Looking at pop and fedora right now. Kinda prefer deb cause thats been my env for 15 yrs

    • @AbidanYre
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      Debian is right there then.

        • @[email protected]
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          Debian 12 shipped with the latest kde plasma version, but the distro is designed to be stable, with a capital S. The packages will not update until the version does.

          Flatpaks are a great way to get modern software on a stable OS like debian. If neon has a flatpak version, it would be a good answer.

          • TunaCowboy
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            stable is not the only debian release.

        • @AbidanYre
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          You could check backports.

          I don’t usually need the absolute latest so I’m fine waiting for stuff to reach testing.

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      I’m thinking pop os or just boring plain debian. This snap shit is just getting too much to bother with.

    • @miket
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      I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

      Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

      I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.

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      I would recommend using Linux Mint. It is Ubuntu without Gnome Shell and snaps. They use Flatpak instead. I have been enjoying it ever since I jumped ship from Ubuntu about 2 years ago.

    • deejay4am
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      I’ve heard the latest Debian absolutely slaps; haven’t tried it yet myself though

      • NaN
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        Not only that, LMDE 6 based on Debian 12 shouldn’t be too far off, which should be a substantial upgrade to the base system.

        Linux Mint 21.2 is in beta, they previously said LMDE 6 should be about a month after the 21.2 release.

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      111 months ago

      I was using EndeavourOS when I ran into the wall that a lot of stuff didn’t have builds on AUR that I needed (and didn’t feel like compiling myself or they didn’t provide source code)