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Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
This guy wasn't maintaining Python, he as creating a new version incompatible with either Python 2.7 or Python 3.
Red Hat and other large companies have maintained Python for years after 2.7 died (EOL date was January 1st, 2020). IBM/Red Hat offer Python 2.7 including security fixes and bug fixes until 2024 (https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511).
Had he just provided patches to Python 2.7, nobody would've batted an eye. Instead, they created an alternative language that was completely different (https://web.archive.org/web/20161210161837/https://www.nafta...).
Founders and core devs indicated that the name was the only problem (https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomm...) and that even things like the header file names could continue to be named Python because of API compatibility.
You can fork any open source project you like, but you still need to stick follow trademark law. You can't just release Linux 2.7 because you disagree with breaking changes in 3.0 either, but you're free to take the Linux code and release Twonux if you really care.
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Debian 12 python2 install
If that doesn't work for some reason, there's this project which claims to be an "active" fork of Python 2, but it also has a lot of backports and additions so I worry a bit about backward compatibility and stability: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon You would have to build this from source as well.
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Don't carelessly rely on fixed-size unsigned integers overflow
Without developers of the compilers all others groups are pretty much irrelevant. There were lots of people who were telling that Python3 is abomination and some even attempted to fork it but fork haven't caught enough interest thus Python2 is, for all intends and purposes, dead.
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Blog post: Rust in 2023
Python developers noticed that people are not in any hurry to switch but instead of trying to understand “why” they have drawn the line in the sand and spent their efforts trying to kill unofficial attempts to create a fork.
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Ubuntu Pro
WinAmp 2 (1998) was widely liked. WinAmp 3 (2002) was considered bloated, and flopped.
So Nullsoft followed it up with WinAmp 5 – because 2+3=5 – in 2003, which was very broadly the codebase of WinAmp 2 (small and lean) plus the skin support from WinAmp 3 (the only part people liked).
This won people back, and WinAmp is still around and got an update this year, 20 years on.
I think it's too late for there to be a Python 5, but I did read a blog post long ago – which I can't find again, or I'd link to it – which proposed a similar compromise fix to Python, in considerable technical detail.
I am with @blagie on this: the Python world handled the 2→3 transition spectacularly badly. V3 didn't deliver enough, and strong-arming people by just end-of-lifing Python 2 and expecting the world to move on was foolhardy and short-sighted.
(And I don't even use the language myself. I'm just observing.)
It's a real shame Tauthon didn't get more traction and support.
https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
If it had got enough support and continued, maybe the Python maintainers would have learned something, but I've not seen any sign that they have.
This is nothing new. For comparison, Perl 6 went so badly that Perl 5 now looks likely to continue as Perl 7:
https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/
And PHP 6 didn't really happen -- AFAICT as a total outsider, Unicode support proved too hard and it was never released; the community backported the important bits to PHP 5, and then a new PHP 7, more modest in scope, developed from PHP 5.
The Python world could have done the same, and Tauthon was an effort in that direction.
It's too late now. I suspect that, just as Perl has lost a massive amount of interest and use, partly from the nearly-two-decade-long effort to release Perl 5, Python has done the same -- sabotaged its own community with this high-handed "your leaders know best" approach.
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Will GIL ever be gone?
I just can't see a major fork happening (see: Tauthon, a fork of 2.7 to keep it alive, but no updates in a year or so).
- What happens if we don't migrate Python 2 code to python 3
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Pip has dropped support for Python 2
If you want forks there are forks. Off the top of my head, Redhat is supporting Python 2 for several more years and there's a project called Tauthon [1] that is "Python 2.8" in spirit. I'm sure there's more efforts I'm not aware of.
[1] https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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Vala Programming Language
There are a lot of third-party Linux apps built with GTK4/Libadwaita. If you just to to https://flathub.org and click on random apps a lot of them will use GTK.
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Saving Linux Desktop. Unifying repositories is the only way
I would recommend taking a look at Flatpak
- Flathub – The Linux App Store
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useful linux/android software sources
flathub flatpak format apps/games for linux desktop, does not require any specific linux distribution just that flatpak is present on the system.
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Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/
I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors, photo apps, office apps. These all will work fine in XWayland and XQuartz. But also, it's relatively easy to get them running on Wayland natively.
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Are there any major sacrifices you make to play on Linux over Windows?
If you're worried about the potential of breaking things, I'd pick the Fedora Kinoite distro. Up to date gaming support, stable and extremely difficult to break. Install apps from Flathub using the built-in Discover software store and go nuts.
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discovery app not working after reimaging solution, no more GUI firefox click install
You can go on flathub.org to found many other apps you wish to install.
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Linux Guide for Power Users
8. Go to https://flathub.org/ and install other useful software.
9. Install an office suite (for example, https://www.freeoffice.com/en/)
For games, Lutris and Steam are your friends.
What are some alternatives?
awesome-buttplug - A list of awesome projects that use the Buttplug Sex Toy Control Library
vinegar - An open-source, minimal, configurable, fast bootstrapper for running Roblox on Linux.
AntiqueAtlas - A Minecraft mod that adds a fancy interactive map item.
appstream-glib - This library provides objects and helper methods to help reading and writing AppStream metadata.
CraftTweaker - Tweak your minecraft experience
steamos-btrfs
pyupgrade - A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer versions of the language.
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions
xdg-desktop-portal - Desktop integration portal
android-sdk-sources-for-api-level-1 - This is only a backup for Android SDK Sources for API Level 1 [Android 1.0].
kpatch - kpatch - live kernel patching
boxtron - Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox