mrbigmouth502

“This release bumps the suggested alternatives for Windows apps by more than 40 percent to a total of 240 applications. This is one of Zorin OS’s niche features, recommending users tailored alternatives to sideloading their Windows executables.”

That’s a pretty far cry from what the title of the article suggests. Clickbait.

“The beauty of the AUR is that you stop waiting for developers to ‘support’ your OS. If the community wants it to work, it works. Period.”

I take issue with this statement. The AUR can be very useful, but the packages in it are maintained by volunteers, so the onus ultimately falls on those volunteers to make sure those packages keep functioning. It’s not uncommon for packages to fall out of date with upstream, and sometimes packages even end up being abandoned.

Arch is a fast-moving system, so packages for it need to be actively maintained to remain installable and functional. Flatpak packages are often volunteer efforts as well, but Flatpak at least allows packages to use specific versions of different libraries so that they can keep functioning.

Right now the only Debian system I have is on Oldstable. If Debian decides to implement age verification/attestation, do you think it’s going to be backported to that version? 🤔

I mostly agree. I will say that I’m not a fan of Flatpak’s resource usage, since it uses a lot of storage and incurs a performance hit on low-end systems compared to native packages, but I like that Flatpak packages are almost guaranteed to “just work” even when native versions of those packages don’t.