Henrik Ahlgren <pa...@seestieto.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 16:45 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > My main complaint is snap, which I have removed but I suspect it's > > going to become steadily more difficult to run Ubuntu without snap. > > Welcome to Debian, no forced snap nonsense here. > > > My only need for 'latest' versions tends to be for a very few things > > where keeping different systems in step is important. Some are in > > PPAs (e.g. syncthing) so I get the same version on all my systems that > > way. The other one I can think of at the moment is GnuCash which I > > run on two systems with the same database so it has to be at the same > > version on both. > > ...however, Flatpak works fine on Debian and is a pretty neat way of > getting very fresh versions of certain selected pieces of software, like > Firefox (official Mozilla channel, released without any delay) or Gnucash. > Of course, better be careful with what you install from Flathub, it > definedly is not always as trustworthy and well-tested as proper distro > packages. But I think it is no worse in that regard than some PPA.
I've found the syncthing PPA excellent over the past few years that I've been using syncthing. Similarly with Vivaldi. That advantage of a PPA is that it keeps the application up to date without any more than running apt. I get digikam as an appimage, I currently get GnuCash from the Ubuntu repository, it may make sense to get that as an appimage or flatpak. -- Chris Green ·
