I take it a step further with distrobox to provide the tooling (like the preferred version of poetry and other cli tools). That ensures people can jump in with the right versions of tools easily, and changes to tooling can be disseminated with a commit (and container build).

But I agree. Get started and solve these problems when they are problems.

I wish them luck and hope they can find better ways to work with the existing maintainers.

I’d like to suggest that you take a different approach, though it looks like there is a workable suggestion already.

Consider using apt_preferences to pin your versions instead of scripting.

https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#apt_preferences_.28APT_pinning

Here’s a clip from one of my distrobox builds:

Package: python3.10
Pin: version 3.10.*
Pin-Priority: 999

Ah, looks like it’s a pre-nerdified cascadia! Not my personal style, but I know a few that love cascadia.

https://github.com/adam7/delugia-code

U001 is new to me, so here’s a link for others to look it up.

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/u001

As a huge expanse fan, I’m glad someone brought this to life! (Shout-out for the space the nation podcast if you like nerds breaking down the episodes and need a good back catalog for the dark winter days)

https://github.com/ThinkDualBrain/Protomolecule

Dropping a link for others since it’s the first time I heard of it.

https://font.gohu.org/

Not sure if this the display manager is the issue, but SDDM is the other “big player”.

So what I see there is that badly designed fonts require ligatures to correct interactions.

Like, I get that there are some neat ones, e.g. I have them turned on when writing code for symbols, but they seem wholly unnecessary and distracting in alphabetical characters.

But I’m also the kind of weirdo that thinks the world needs more monospace fonts.

/shrug

To me, that’s even worse. Ligatures that have 0 separation where it’s expected short circuit my reading comprehension.

The “fi” combination also seems problematic since they seem to intersect.