eznoAfter yesterday, I can see the allure of Flatpaks and Snap packages and such. I avoid them because I like the Unix philosophy that my tools should be simple and easy to chain together. But yesterday, I needed to edit an epub file and found I couldn't launch Sigil on antiX 21. Turns out that version 1.5 of Sigil relies on CSS, which my 18 year old Presario will not deal with. I tried to install version 0.9.3 from a deb package, but was met with an invitation to dependencies hell. At that moment, I saw the brilliance of self-contained packages.
Not that any of them would run on my Presario. I only need to use Sigil a handful of times a year, but when I need it, it's essential to my job, so I had to roll back antiX to 19.5, which relies on Debian Buster, which also offers Sigil 0.9. So now my 18 year old desktop appears to be stuck on Buster unless I find an alternative to Sigil.
Fabian Schaar 