Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.
Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone
They only support Ubuntu for their rdesktop app, Someone pulled it kicking and screaming into nixpkgs, i built a flake around it. It’s stable, but the day they release a breaking change, I’m at the mercy of an unpaid, unnamed package maintainer to make it work again or take a stab at it myself. Or run it in wine, or run it in a windows VM. or build it out an ubuntu docker and x11 forward it back.
Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)
Yeah, I had a Windows VM for them, it was the ultimate in compatibility, but it was another thing to deal with on admin/updates. Ubuntu docker images with maintainers bridges the gap in all ways except maybe a little sketch on supply chain security
Im trying to imagine what software is so obscure no one has updated it or ported to another distro, but is important and good enough that you use it for 70% of your comluter time.
Even (often, especily) extremely old programming languages and stuff are still maintained by someone
Probably shit like NinjaRMM
They only support Ubuntu for their rdesktop app, Someone pulled it kicking and screaming into nixpkgs, i built a flake around it. It’s stable, but the day they release a breaking change, I’m at the mercy of an unpaid, unnamed package maintainer to make it work again or take a stab at it myself. Or run it in wine, or run it in a windows VM. or build it out an ubuntu docker and x11 forward it back.
Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)
Also wine
Yeah, I had a Windows VM for them, it was the ultimate in compatibility, but it was another thing to deal with on admin/updates. Ubuntu docker images with maintainers bridges the gap in all ways except maybe a little sketch on supply chain security