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A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

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[–] code@lemmy.mayes.io 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This is why im on the hunt for a new distro. Looking at pop and fedora right now. Kinda prefer deb cause thats been my env for 15 yrs

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can I get debian with latest kde? Like stable debian but rolling DE like kde neon?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Debian 12 shipped with the latest kde plasma version, but the distro is designed to be stable, with a capital S. The packages will not update until the version does.

Flatpaks are a great way to get modern software on a stable OS like debian. If neon has a flatpak version, it would be a good answer.

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

stable is not the only debian release.

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

stable is not the only debian release.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You could check backports.

I don't usually need the absolute latest so I'm fine waiting for stuff to reach testing.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Siduction is rolling Debian with more updated KDE stuff.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you're introducing me to some 2 girls 1 cup type shit, but I'll look it up. Is it still maintained?

[–] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

still maintained?

Yup! It's rolling, but the latest ISO release was in March.

[–] gvanburen@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Been using popos on all my computers for the past year and have been happy with it.

[–] miket@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.

[–] 4am@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve heard the latest Debian absolutely slaps; haven’t tried it yet myself though

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] crypticinquiry@mastodon.ie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@skillissuer @code Do more than consider! - It's perfect.
Maybe not cutting edge, exciting or novelty-filled but dependable, and rock solid.

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

compared to straight debian, it is novelty filled lol

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Not only that, LMDE 6 based on Debian 12 shouldn’t be too far off, which should be a substantial upgrade to the base system.

Linux Mint 21.2 is in beta, they previously said LMDE 6 should be about a month after the 21.2 release.

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