unix_joe , 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.