On Mon, 2022-05-02 at 02:02 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > I am finding many applications that I use are no longer being > supported on Fedora or there are not enough people working to keep > applications updated. I have started to use SNAP software to get > current versions or applications at all. I think you'll find that problem across various different distros. There's a push for one or more types of so-called universal packate (snap, appimage), where one file supposedly runs on different distros. While the idea sounds good in practice, and probably suits some people who want to be the sole distributor/compiler of their program, the trouble is that all the OSs are different and you find things don't work on some distros. Then you'll get told to switch distros, instead of them fixing the problem (if they even can). I find I can't print with these things, I have to export a PDF file and print that. It's a cumbersome annoyance. And at some stage the PDF application will probably become an appimage, and I won't be able to print from that. Another problem is that we'll step away from one big advantage Fedora, Ubuntu et al, have: Their own file repositories. Currently, issuing a simple "yum update" or "dnf update" updates *all* your software, when you want to. When you move away from everything comes from your repos, to everything comes from somewhere else, you go back to the Windows model; where you have to manually update each program, or each program checks for updates when you fire it up (delaying you using it). And programs install auto-launchers that run every time you log in, so a dozen different things all check home with mummy to see if they need updating. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 5 16:57:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
