Brian Masinick
Can I find old .deb of apps instead? For any other apps that I may use in the future?
So the answer to the various questions, on one hand, MIGHT be yes. However, on the other hand, there are consequences of each choice you make. If you make too many choices that require many other packages, including some combination of old packages or packages that conflict with antiX, the end result may very well be that you wreck your system (one possibility), or you have a system that “works”, but it’s no longer systemD free, or it partially works, and it’s really doesn’t have many antiX based packages any more.
I don’t know what this tool does without researching it, but I have a question: Do you have other computers or other systems that you could use to run this particular software? If no, then my next recommendation is to do some research and see if there are any other applications or system features you can use instead of the app you are attempting to run. If yes to that one, pursue an alternative.
If you MUST run this app, I’m sorry to suggest that perhaps antiX is not the right distribution for this particular set of requirements. Our antiX excels at running low to moderate resource software. Only Web browsers depart from that low to moderate resource requirement, and we often recommend lighter, command based browsers on systems that struggle to run heavy, full featured Web browsers.
I have some hardware that probably IS capable of running the app you’re attempting to run, but I multi-boot, so I’d be inclined to install it on another distribution. If that’s a possibility, then maybe either MX Linux or Linux Mint would be a more suitable alternative to antiX for the kinds of applications you seem to want to use. I don’t have Linux Mint installed but I’ve used it in the past. It requires a lot more system resources than antiX does, and also more than MX Linux. In return, it offers a beautiful user interface and a lot of well integrated applications. That trade-off may be too expensive for your hardware; MX Linux is a very nice middle weight distribution.
So what I do, because I have multiple laptop computer systems is that I run multiple distributions on several of them, and one distribution on two others; this way I can ALWAYS have antiX and I install it on nearly all of my systems. When I want to experiment with something else, I use another partition or another computer.
The solution is that some difficult choices have to be made, one of – a system powerful enough to run what you want as is. On that system, if available, I’d put the software in question and one of those other distributions mentioned (or that proprietary system that consumers often use that we don’t often mention here by name). The other practical solution is to find a lighter alternative that antiX can easily manage, and the third alternative is to do without this application. Only you can ultimately decide which of these alternatives is best for you. One other option is to continue researching to find out if there are any other potential solutions available.
Best wishes; I hope that even though this didn’t provide you a definite answer, it will provide you a few options and alternatives to consider. Last, maybe there is a computer in a public location that you can use on occasion to get the capabilities of the application you seek to use. Also, maybe someone more astute than me will know of another better solution.
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