When a distro is labeled as 'stable' (or 'lts' in ubuntu's terms) it means that every single package and lib will stay at the exact same version throuout its lifetime so as to have a stable. Which one would you keep and which one would you throw away?' And as a friend of mine once said to make his point: 'Let's say I give you two installation disks, one of windows 7 and one of debian 5 (or any other old version of a linux distro). Fast forwart to 2018 and qt4 is half dead and we count which qt4 apps remain to be ported to qt5. in 2014, qt4 was a mainstream toolkit and every qt app was build with it. In order for devs and users to keep up they have to constantly upgrade their apps because new stuff comes along and old stuff is deprecated quickly. Things in linux change and they change rapidly. Until then, opera will be my everyday browser.Īllow me once more, because I was at your position ~10 years ago that I abandoned ubuntu and every other release based distro. if it bundles a better build of libffmpeg than opera, giving it better html5 multimedia support.ctrl+1 opens this, ctrl+2 opens that etc. if it implements speed dial the way presto opera used to, i.e.Electron is the worst toolkit of our days and its poor performance can only be compared to the all time crap, java. if it switches from electron to a proper toolkit for its ui.There are 2 closed source apps I would install but can't because their maintainers decided to built, package and make them depend on 2 old versions of specific libraries, one for each app.Īs for vivaldi, I will switch to it if one day (for most important to least) To be honest, I really like that devs of closed source software are updating their apps and follow the.

I would post more examples if more distros had better package search webpages. debian 8 which is 1 year younger than ubuntu 14.04 (released Aprin 2015) in and its eol is also one year later (April 2020). This makes in unable to install in other 'old' distros as well, e.g. Opera 51 requires libdbus-1-3 to be >= 1.9.14, while opera 50 required it ot be >= 1.2.14. I just found the 'why' behind that change. A Former User last edited by A Former User

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