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    Chat, is this accurate? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] M137@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I'm forced to use Ubuntu (an old version too, 22.04) because the app I use for about 70% of my computer time doesn't support anything else. I've tried newer versions of ubuntu and other distros and have gotten it to a mostly working state after a lot of work, but the issues are too much and I also loose all customer support since I'm not using the officially supported distro and version. I'll never go back to Windows but I feel jailed in more than I did before, and there's just no other option.

    So what does that image look like?

    [–] tux7350@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

    Put the app into a docker container?

    [–] silicon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

    I dunno, put it in a VM on a much newer distro?

    [–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

    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