Re: dist-upgrade wants to deinstall lots of packages?

[Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@att.net>]

On 9/17/2020 10:29 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:14:30 +0200
> Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
>
> > Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2020, 17:01:29 CEST schrieb Joe:
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> >
> > No offence. :)
>
> And none taken. Yes, I've lost one or two applications over the years
> which I was actively using. But it is rare for this to happen without a
> good substitute (in someone's opinion) being available.


	I would not say it is rare.  It is quote common.  I think the OP 
perhaps wants some sort of more or less automatic substitution, which is 
not practical.

> But it does happen. I use Remmina for MS remote desktop, but there was
> a time when that was very buggy, and the previous best RDP software had
> been withdrawn. I carried on using the latter as long as I could, by
> which time Remmina was useable.

	Oh, wow!  I did not know about this software.  I need to give it a 
whirl.  Thanks!

> Alarm Clock was the most recent
> application I was using which was withdrawn. It's a bit more of a
> problem when it's a driver for proprietary hardware, which
> manufacturers often do not provide for Linux, and only one person/group
> was making an OS version, more or less as a hobby.

	It's more of a problem with Windows.  Whether it is a matter of the 
company being bought and the product terminated, the company going out 
of business, or the product being discontinued, at least with an 
open-source solution, one can manage the product one's self.