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4 votes
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What should a lay user know about Linux app packaging?
I’m enough of a Linux lay user that I’m not even sure if I’m using the right terminology in the question (feel free to tweak it if needed!). Here’s what I mean: I’m running Pop!_OS currently, and...
I’m enough of a Linux lay user that I’m not even sure if I’m using the right terminology in the question (feel free to tweak it if needed!). Here’s what I mean:
I’m running Pop!_OS currently, and I have at least one app installed via each of the following methods:
- Deb app from the distro repositories
- Deb deb downloaded from program website
- Flatpak app downloaded from Flathub
- AppImage app downloaded from program website
- Snap app downloaded from the Snap store
As someone who doesn’t really know or necessarily even care to know what’s going on under the hood, these all pretty much work identically for me (with the exception of AppImage which doesn’t integrate into my regular programs menu, and the standalone Deb, which requires manual updating). In fact, for most of the programs on my computer I couldn’t tell you which one they’re sourced from. They all just run like they should.
I’ve looked up differences between all of the options and usually end up finding conversations that go well above my head and get deep into technical details. My question here is basically aimed at cutting through a lot of that depth: what is the important, need-to-know information about these different methods of installing apps? Is there anything I should be aware of if all I’m really going to be doing is running them as a standard, non-power user? Also, if an app is available via multiple methods — is there one that is preferred/better/safer/superior/etc.?
14 votes -
Twitch streamer Destiny and economist Richard Wolff debate capitalism, achieve nothing
19 votes -
Solving the vaccine data problem
7 votes -
New in progress Blender render engine: Cycles X
7 votes -
How Georges St-Pierre spent his first $1M in the UFC | My First Million
5 votes -
Where does music come from? (An abridged history of music, memory and language)
3 votes -
Why do notes have names? (A short history of solfeggio)
4 votes -
Why Lichess will always be free
19 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
The US FCC wants your thoughts on improving the shorter National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number
4 votes -
The ultimate AeroPress technique (Episode #3)
11 votes -
The art of slogans: MATH, Google Andrew Yang, Humanity First, and A New Way Forward
11 votes -
Drought in Mexico reaches critical levels as lakes dry up
7 votes -
A guide to some newly supported, modern CSS pseudo-class selectors
4 votes -
LudoNarraCon 2021 - An annual digital festival held exclusively on Steam to celebrate narrative video games and the developers that make them, running April 23 - 26
7 votes -
Game Accessibility Guidelines
6 votes -
Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
8 votes -
What it takes to become the world's best whistler
18 votes -
We talk to Disco Elysium's incredible narrator, who recorded 350,000 words of dialogue and has never acted before
13 votes -
Kalle Rovanperä crashes out of Croatia Rally on SS1
6 votes -
Mark Selby is the last man into round two at the World Snooker Championship after a 10-1 walloping of Norwegian Kurt Maflin
3 votes -
What’s so bad about digital blackface?
14 votes -
Looking for recommendations for a high-end / "prosumer" network router (that is not Ubiquiti)
I recently moved apartments. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter POE that's served me well over the past few years. I unplugged the router at my old place, drove over to my new place, plugged it in,...
I recently moved apartments. I have a Ubiquiti Edgerouter POE that's served me well over the past few years.
I unplugged the router at my old place, drove over to my new place, plugged it in, and...it failed to boot. I can log in to the web UI, but I immediately get an error that I can't get past. SSH, which normally works, comes back "connection refused" indicating the SSH daemon isn't even running.
There are forum posts about this problem from five fucking years ago. The only solution offered is to do a factory reset. I could do this, and I have a config backup somewhere, but I'm not going to put up with a device so unreliable that a power cycle bricks it.
I was a big fan of Ubiquiti up to now. I have two of their routers, one at my home and one at a vacation home my family owns that I'm the IT guy for, as well as several of their access points. After this, as well as the recent data breach (which didn't affect me personally but gives me a bad taste nonetheless) I think I'm done with them.
So, Tilderinos, any recommendations?
Some specifics:
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I have gigabit internet so I definitely want something that can handle those speeds and not be a bottleneck
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I'm knowledgeable about networking and have no problem with "user-unfriendly" setup & configuration.
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I have a site-to-site-to-site Wireguard VPN between my home, my family's cabin, and a server I run in the cloud. I'd strongly prefer to keep using Wireguard, which effectively limits me to Linux-based options, because FreeBSD support for Wireguard is still WIP. If it weren't for this requirement, something BSD-based like pfSense / OPNsense would be at the top of my list.
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I'd prefer to keep the router and access point separate rather than go with a typical "all in one" type device. The wifi spectrum at my new place is much less congested than my old apartment building, but I'd still like to keep the option of having multiple APs. I got spoiled by my old apartment being wired for Ethernet so running multiple APs was easy. That's not an option at my new place so I may look into either powerline internet (yes I know it sucks) or mesh wireless.
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MNDR - Feed Me Diamonds (RAC remix, 2012)
4 votes -
Bear’s Den - Hiding Bottles (2019)
3 votes -
Field notes: Miami
5 votes -
A summary of the book "Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" by Jack Devanney
16 votes -
Living nonbinary in a binary sports world
10 votes -
NASA’s Mars helicopter achieves first flight on another world
21 votes -
When Texas’ natural gas supplies froze up, prices soared, and now Minnesota’s customers are looking at an $800 million bill
4 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
12 votes -
Gearbox threatens to leave Texas over anti-trans bill
27 votes -
eProcessor is a project that will create an open source RISC-V core for High Performance Computing (HPC)
7 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
The SPACE of Developer Productivity
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Discord has halted talks with Microsoft and other potential acquirers, is resuming interest in a future IPO
28 votes -
Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
20 votes -
They hacked McDonald’s ice cream machines—and started a cold war
17 votes -
LeVar Burton to guest host ‘Jeopardy!’; George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, David Faber and Joe Buck close out lineup
11 votes -
The indie online storefront itch.io is coming as a downloadable app to the Epic Games Store
12 votes -
Pyodide is now an independent project - The CPython 3.8 interpreter compiled to WebAssembly which allows Python to run in the browser, originally developed at Mozilla
9 votes -
Ireland’s strategy to be a world leader in sustainable food by 2030
6 votes -
Proof by underpants
11 votes -
Lumber prices soar, but logs are still dirt cheap
11 votes -
Ted Lasso | Season 2 trailer
11 votes -
E.M. Forster: "The Machine Stops"
3 votes -
Discworld short film, Troll Bridge, released on YouTube
16 votes -
Search for tag site-wide?
Clicking a tag provides the search results for that tag in the local group. Since some topics appear across groups, I think it'd be useful to view site-wide results as well, optionally. Does that...
Clicking a tag provides the search results for that tag in the local group. Since some topics appear across groups, I think it'd be useful to view site-wide results as well, optionally. Does that already exist?
9 votes -
Enzyme: Automatic differentiation of LLVM IR
8 votes