The same is true for Opensuse Tumbleweed, but unlike the need for using 3rd party web sites, officially sponsored package managers make all of these same applications available via the officially sponsored and hosted 3rd party repos and the via ackage manager. Especially and including WSJTX and it's variants and all of the stable as well as very bleeding edge stuff. Any app I ever needed.
Now, I do build things from source. But this is done when I am either developing software or assisting with testing on very alpha released stuff, or working through bugfixes on released packages. In that case it is being done via git, as usual.
No need to hunt up updates from web sites and all of the updating is handled in one fell swoop as it should be, unlike the Windows world.
Like I said, I can't say enough good stuff about Tumbleweed. Ubuntu, much as lots of folks love it and swear by it, is too messed with for me. I like standard based Linux/UNIX. But a distro decision is something each of us needs to make on their own. My 5 decades of UNIX experience might have me shaking my head about some thing or other that some distro did, where someone newer would never know better.
No wrong answer other than to not go Linux all the way :)
73,
Rick Kunath, K9AO
