@simon_brooke bit late to the party but /e/OS has their own app store called App Lounge which basically combines F-Droid and the Google Play Store. You can get all the normal apps through it, as long as they're not paid. My banking app is on there.

You can also export your Google Authenticator logins and import them into another (FOSS) authenticator app. I use 2FAS which made the process quite easy.

@Skoop @ramsey In my experience it's even got so far as to become a UX design choice. I recently had to add a button to all screens in a web app with a left facing arrow with the title of the previous page next to it, essentially duplicating the browser button.

When I pressed the designer about the point of it she couldn't give me a good reason.

I think it's mobile app UI bleeding into everything else.

@paladin I imagine the main problem is maintainability vs demand.

The vast majority of people using the "laravel new" command probably want the latest version of everything. Combine that with the fact that every major release of the framework in the future would require additional backwards compatibility or requested version checks within the "new" command and it seems more and more desirable to only support the latest release.

@paladin

Looking into the Laravel Installer source it seems like it's not possible to install anything other than the latest version. This is the command they use under the hood:

`$createProjectCommand = $composer." create-project laravel/laravel \"$directory\" $version --remove-vcs --prefer-dist --no-scripts";`

Where `$version` is either 'dev-master' or an empty string.

https://github.com/laravel/installer/blob/a354346c01540fd3ab8e1a58333499c04994419f/src/NewCommand.php#L228