Hey everyone,

As the author of Albert (a standalone C++ / Qt keyboard launcher), I constantly deal with a recurring headache: most of the users sit on old software. Telemetry shows that most of the users are on Ubuntu LTS or Linux Mint (based on LTS).

Flatpak is not a silver bullet, its devs explicitly told me that it is not for Albert (okay, cool). To ship recent versions of Albert for the majority of users I have to provide like 3 to 4 years backward compat. This takes a _lot_ of time.

Now I wonder: why do I have to at all? Why are most users deliberately using software that is EOL or at least quite old?

EDIT:

With EOL I mean the particular packages. E.g. Ubuntu 22.04 ships Qt 6.4 which is EOL.

How many of you use desktop HDR? As in just calibrating HDR and leaving it on? Iv had good results on KDE but i was curious how the community felt about it so far. Its widely subjective. I think personally i like it better than SDR on my OLED monitor. Slightly dimmer than the SDR when calibrated but more real to the eyes. Comparing this to W11 its SO much better.