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Yeah, MS can have some pretty malicious practices. When they acquired Skype |
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they *removed* the E2E encryption. |
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 12:02 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Monday, November 27, 2017, Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku < |
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> jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Is Skype "largely unusable" on Gentoo? It feels like about 3 days ago I |
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> > was forced to upgrade because "this version is no longer supported" and |
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> > to upgrade I had to keyword the latest version. If this keeps |
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> > happening, to me, this is broken. And I'm not sure if the problem is |
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> > that we are so far behind, that when Microsoft removes support we only |
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> > just barely meet the requirements, or if there is something I am missing. |
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> > |
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> > I *do* like to keep my computer updated, but unless I misunderstand (and |
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> > it seems that Gentoo has changed a lot since I started using it about |
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> > 15-20 years ago (I think)) stable is the recommended way to run the |
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> > system unless you want to go into "here be pesky programmes" territory. |
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> > When I started, even "stable" was a lot more work than previously used |
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> > distributions, but with Gentoo, I've always felt that with Gentoo, while |
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> > doing "basic stuff" can be more difficult, other distributions have |
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> > always been "if it doesn't work out of the box, it's probably not that |
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> > worth trying to figure it out." |
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> > I still feel that getting things working in Gentoo is always "a bit of |
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> > work" and if it "doesn't just work" it often still can be done without a |
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> > whole lot more work. But having to upgrade in a "manual way" on |
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> > approximately a weekly basis just to have functionality tells me that |
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> > something is badly broken (and I don't feel it is Gentoo in this case, |
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> > but I need to have some better understanding). |
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> > I know, that when I was trying to figure out just "what was supported" I |
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> > actually wasn't getting good information... |
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> If it is keyworded it is "supported" unless you are using very niche |
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> software. This does not mean anyone will be able to help you fix things |
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> quickly. |
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> Unstable packages typically run well. I routinely fix issues by using |
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> unstable or even unkeyworded packages over the stable versions. Most issues |
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> arise when stable and unstable packages interact, usually due to breaking |
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> interface changes. So, paradoxically, an unstable (or testing) system can |
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> be more stable than a stable system. |
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> If you fix an issue by using an unstable package you can request |
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> stabilization. Sometimes people forget to do it. For a package like Skype, |
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> though, I suspect it will be stabilized as soon as possible. |
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> Cheers, |
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> R0b0t1 |