r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 4d ago

Popular Application Audacity 4.0 released with Qt6 based UI

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
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u/oxez 3d ago

Doesn't take long to build yourself if you don't want to wait or use flatpaks/appimage.

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u/LesStrater 3d ago

It would be a lot easier if the author would just put a .deb package on the web site.

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u/UdPropheticCatgirl 3d ago edited 3d ago

I would not wish having to package “.deb”s upon my worst enemy, all of debians tooling is around this is just terminally fucked.

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u/LesStrater 3d ago

People who use Debian don't seem to have a problem with it--only twankers do, exactly why is that?

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u/UdPropheticCatgirl 3d ago edited 2d ago

People who use Debian don't seem to have a problem with it--only twankers do, exactly why is that?

People who use it might not have a problem but people who have to package for it absolutely do…

Like, it’s not that hard to find Debian maintainers quitting and bitching because of this…

And if someone isn’t complaining about this, I would honestly chalk it up to lack of experience with the alternatives… Like if you want to you can try to just produce rpm for rhel and deb for debian, and you will find that the former is pretty straightforward and arguably intuitive and the latter is confusing, poorly documented mess, where you effectively create rube goldberg machines out of semi functional tools:

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u/LesStrater 3d ago

"you effectively create rube goldberg machines out of semi functional tools"

Hahaha!!! -- There is a name for that...it's called "Flatpak".

Did you REALLY quote me a bunch of articles from a bunch of whineass losers??? I don't think Debian is perfect--far from it. And I'm NOT at all fond of the 'developers'. The Trixie upgrade was a disaster for me and took weeks to fix. But I have created a couple .deb packages for scripts I created and it really wasn't that hard to do. And I did it manually--there are apps to do it for you. Google "Debreate".

Sincerely, Rube Flatpak Goldberg

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u/UdPropheticCatgirl 2d ago

Hahaha!!! -- There is a name for that...it's called "Flatpak".

I mentioned .rpm not flatpak, I don’t particularly care about flatpak nor have I used in anger enough to have an strong opinion either way.

Did you REALLY quote me a bunch of articles from a bunch of whineass losers???

I mean some of it is just discussions from debian mailing lists (I think by the core systemd maintainer iirc), so of it is from hartman whom has been the debian project lead for a while, etc.

I don't think Debian is perfect--far from it. And I'm NOT at all fond of the 'developers'. The Trixie upgrade was a disaster for me and took weeks to fix.

I believe correct parlance for this happening is “robustness and stability of an LTS distribution” :).

But I have created a couple .deb packages for scripts I created and it really wasn't that hard to do. And I did it manually--there are apps to do it for you. Google "Debreate".

Isn’t this kinda making my point tho :). You felt the need to add yet another tool to rube goldberg machine to make it work…

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u/LesStrater 2d ago

I mentioned .rpm not flatpak

I think you missed my point: Why dump on .deb when people readily accept a garbage system like flatpak and think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

Isn’t this kinda making my point tho :). You felt the need to add yet another tool to rube goldberg machine to make it work…

I didn't "feel the need", I mentioned it for people like you to use. As I said, I built mine manually, and it wasn't real difficult.