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He said it: because it isn't in Debian repos.

• esseph 6mo ago
  One of many reasons I left Debian behind for desktop things over a decade ago. I love the project and appreciate the history, but things can get pretty long in the tooth after awhile. Flatpaks help.
  • giancarlostoro 6mo ago
    I wish Debian had an Arch style bleeding edge fork. Till then I've been happy using Arch, I had my last straw when a program needed a more up to date GLIBC on Debian. That's such a can of worms to resolve, I just went ahead and gave Endeavour (Arch based) a try and havent gone back or changed distros ever since. If someone ever makes a Debian distro that is bleeding edge and supports Nvidia drivers (basically a more bleeding edge Ubuntu) I'd be all ears.
    • Wowfunhappy 6mo ago
      Aren't you describing either Debian Testing or Debian Unstable? (Depending on just how bleeding edge you want.)
      • giancarlostoro 6mo ago
        You cannot find nvidia drivers on there. The philosophy of Debian forbids it.
  • kevin_thibedeau 6mo ago
    Just download the source and build the binaries you need. I use GNU stow as a parallel package manager within /usr/local that plays nice with the rest of the OS. It isn't hard for most sane programs with proper build scripting.
    • esseph 6mo ago
      Went to an atomic distro + flatpak.
• d3Xt3r 6mo ago
  That's an odd reason. There's many ways to get packages these days without being dependent on your distro's repos (like using brew or Nix, or just grabbing the binaries directly). Ghostty is a very popular terminal right now, so it's a shame that the author left it out of the comparison.
  • deleted 6mo ago
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  • jbverschoor 6mo ago
    the (walled) garden is a very good place to be