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?

  • corsicanguppy
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    5 months ago

    A someone who worked in OS security, I beg you dont use flatpaks.

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      5 months ago

      As someone who works, flatpak’s solve a bunch of problems, freeing me up to continue working.

      Security issues are just a class of issue; no more or less important than other issues

    • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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      5 months ago

      As I said, “if this no other option”. And to be honest, that was once, for a few weeks before the new KiCad hit Debian repos. And only because hardware team wouldn’t wait to switch, so to open stuff, I needed it too.