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[–] SpaceNoodle 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If for some unspecified reason you truly and absolutely need the latest version of something, nothing's stopping you from pulling the repo and building it yourself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's fine when you need only one or two things, but when you wan't your whole system to be up to date as much as possible it becomes tedious.

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And I'm questioning the need for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For me it's the fact that I almost always need a feature from a program that's in a recent release that is never in debian/ubuntu until a couple years later.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For every single package?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just about 90% of packages that I wan't to use

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 4 months ago

X

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fairly long-term Mint veteran here: usually if I need software that's more up to date than what's in the standard repo, Flatpak will do.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 4 months ago

Oh god no