Fontra Pak as a snap app for Linux desktop

mitradranirban
mitradranirban Posts: 58
in Type Design Software
As fontra is approaching version 1, it is now made available at Snapcraft store (https://snapcraft.io/fontrapak) for desktop linux users who don't want to compile from source and has no issues installing app from an app store.

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  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,013
    This is a great step in the direction of me never running a commercial OS again. I kind of want to get Fontra running on OpenBSD just because.
  • John Butler
    John Butler Posts: 312
    I’ve made many abortive OpenBSD attempts myself over the years. I probably fail because I end up only throwing ancient hardware at it, saving the newest stuff for Windows. I’ve had slightly better luck with Ubuntu. The key to making Linux tolerable is to remove all the crap fonts it’s loaded with and copy in the Windows fonts that came with your Linux machine’s original Windows license instead. I do leave some of the TeX fonts and whatnot. It was gloriously usable for a while until it mysteriously became unbootable, and I wasn’t motivated to chase down Linux boot issues on a fifteen-year-old laptop.
    Yesterday I ran the built-in Weather app that comes with Windows 10 just to check my local forecast, and it’s encrufted with Google ads. Motivation has now returned.
  • mitradranirban
    mitradranirban Posts: 58
    Dual booting Windows and Linux has become increasingly difficult due to policies of Microsoft. However you can repurpose old machines Microsoft no longer supports to run exclusively linux, even multiple flavours of it. 
  • John Butler
    John Butler Posts: 312
    I won’t even bother attempting a dual boot setup. I run Windows on a separate machine. A bootloader configuration is just one more thing to break.

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