alt Hacker News> Docker, Flatpack, and to a much lesser extent Snap have pretty much eliminated these reasons though.
And also plain Debian repositories gaining popularity over PPAs. WeeChat and Synapse (Matrix) both offer one for example.
> Docker, Flatpack, and to a much lesser extent Snap have pretty much eliminated these reasons though.
And also plain Debian repositories gaining popularity over PPAs. WeeChat and Synapse (Matrix) both offer one for example.
I wonder how much Raspberry Pi's choice to use Debian as the basis for their default distribution helped here, because it certainly increased the demand for plain Debian packaging of software that was previously packaged for Ubuntu.