@jonas

Thank you for the information. As a new Linux user I think I want to stay away from rolling release for now. I believe that using a distro like Mint will give me stability while I learn. Maybe I'm incorrect. I do plan on checking out Fedora later on though!

A follow up if you don't mind. Prior to your reply I installed the debian package for Ubuntu from the Strawberry website. I noticed that it added a PPA on its own, but it is different from the one you posted. Should I remove the existing source, and add the one that you posted? Screenshot below.

Good day.

I am a newer Linux user and would like to start using Strawberry as my music player. I have some questions about installation if that is ok.

I'm using the latest version of Linux Mint. When I search the Software Manager included with my OS, I see a couple of instances of Strawberry. A flatpak of version 1.2.9, and a system package of version 1.0.23.

Why the difference in versions?

I don't think I want to use flatpaks, but also don't want to use an old version such as what is available as the system package.

I see I can also install via the .deb (although I'm unsure if I should use the Debian file, or one of the Ubuntu files since Mint is based on Ubuntu). I did install one of the Ubuntu .deb files to test, and the program works. I checked sources.list.d and don't see any changes to the apt repo, so I was going to ask how to update this program now? But then I launched Software Manager again and noticed that it shows Strawberry installed with a system package of 1.2.9-noble. So has the Software Manager detected that I installed this manually, and is now tracking the software for updates? This part confuses me a lot how this has happened.

I'm sorry for the beginner questions, and hope that this makes sense.