Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: Is Debian still good for GUI stuff in an over 12 yrs. old PC? Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:19:46 -0700 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net h+5Wpu/n+uiqA+wY8dYL7QQuwdNecDuiiALp85dj4ZumdDixFP Cancel-Lock: sha1:GzMmR/TkannXOMd8ZE7lYpHTTxE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux:70918 alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions:22 Mike Easter wrote: > One advantage of Ub over Deb in terms of packages is the availability of > .ppa/s for the specific Ub Focal release. An example of this is the LibreOffice situation. The Ub repo/s have LO as 6,.4.7 as conventional .deb, default repo/s, whereas LO dev is recently in the 7/s. The Discover package manager shows the availability of 7.2 because it is available as a flatpak. Personally I would prefer to use conventional .deb packages which are available as a .ppa repo to Ubuntu. I'm not sure exactly what .deb package is currently available for the stable Deb repo/s, but I'll bet that it isn't as new as those for Ub. -- Mike Easter