I forgot, which Linux distro does @aescling use?
@vaporeon_ the current debian stable is a surpurrisingly good desktop linux distribution these days
@aescling Does this imply it was not a good distribution somewhen in the past? I've had pretty good experiences with Debian in the past, too
@vaporeon_ same here but it has a reputation fur being too old to be a suitable choice fur desktop usage. tbh i don’t know if that was ever true, but i can say that it is a lot easier to get unofficial repositories fur unofficial packages fur debian these days, from, say, firefox or docker, that don’t break your system if you really need to get them, while still giving you up to date versions of, say, firefox
(i just use firefox ESR on debian though; it’s really good enough fur me)
@aescling I can't imagine wanting an up-to-date version of Firefox with all the nasty stuff that Mozilla is putting into it... Actually made the effort to switch all my Firefox-capable devices over to ESR because of it
I guess the one package that I need up-to-date version of is youtube-dl (though now I use yt-dlp, I guess), and Debian's packaging processes move way too slow for their version of it to be useful
And I'd solve that by installing it to ~/.local/bin
@vaporeon_ i begrudgingly keep my browsers up to date because they have security updates All The Time
but honestly i don’t need bleeding edge js or css stuff or especially most of firefox’s latest features so i could purrobably just use ESR when not using debian
@aescling That's a good choice 👍
That's also what I would've suggested to Clodsire if he had asked