Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do they even need busybox if the base install already comes with full gnu coreutils? I remember Debian as the distro that Just Wroks™, when did it all go so wrong? Is anyone else here having similar issues, or am I doing something wrong?

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    They can just use Flatpak as it will be the newest outside of Arch. Alternatively they could run Distrobox with something like Fedora.

    • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 months ago

      I stopped using flatpak when I found out both I had to update outside of the package manager. Also using flatpak gave me some issues with my sound card, so I just run the .deb. To each their own though, which is why I love Linux.

        • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Again, not arguing against, just why I don’t…. You do you, I’m just talking about me. Just cause I don’t use something for some reason doesn’t make me anti that thing. Linux community can be so volatile sometimes

        • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
          2·
          5 months ago

          Again, not arguing against, just why I don’t…. You do you, I’m just talking about me. Just cause I don’t use something for some reason doesn’t make me anti that thing. Linux community can be so volatile sometimes

          • Vilian@lemmy.ca
            3·
            5 months ago

            fair, that i heard so much shit about people hating flatpak when it can be very helpful for newcomers that it got to my head, sorry

            • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 months ago

              It can be tough through words to understand intent sometimes, and I to write sarcastic and dry, so no problem.

              Flatpak is helpful, it’s how I ran several programs before my work forced me to windows, it does have its place in the toolbox.

            • snekerpimp@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 months ago

              It can be tough through words to understand intent sometimes, and I to write sarcastic and dry, so no problem.

              Flatpak is helpful, it’s how I ran several programs before my work forced me to windows, it does have its place in the toolbox.