Who would think of offering only the beta version of a software in the official repositories when the stable one exists? only to ubuntu

That Linux doesn't work like Windows is no secret; if it were, we might not use it. But not everything in Windows is bad. The fact that it is the most widely used operating system makes developers take it more into account, and, for example, Kodi adds a Python to its version for Windows in which almost nothing fails. A lot of the time, the way software is implemented on Linux is better, and it's easier to get things like PHP working, but some projects, like Ubuntu, they go very to theirs.

I don't think it's the first time he's done it, but it is the first time I've seen that it's not the best idea in the world. a little over a month ago we wrote an article in which we explained why some addons (complements) did not work in Kodi for Linux. They don't work because their developers create their addons for the versions of Python that they include in Android and Windows, and Linux has it more up to date. If we add to that a version of Kodi that is not yet available as stable, What could go wrong?

Ubuntu 22.10 offers Kodi 20.alpha

My old laptop, which has been rattled enough (and with problems caused by my big hands), still works, but I rarely use it for anything other than playing multimedia content. It currently has Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04 installed, and I've checked a few times to see if I can upgrade without losing anything from Kodi. So far I have not succeeded.

What we did not explain at the time is that Kodi can also be made to work on operating systems such as Debian 11, but with a different process; compiling python 3.8 and doing the alternate install. The repository to install Python 3.8 in the method that we do explain does not work on Ubuntu 22.10, so the only solution was to compile Python 3.8 as in Debian. But not, my favorite addon installer doesn't work on Kodi 20.

Searching the net, one can see that Kodi 19.x is not available for Kinetic Kudu, unless add the official repository, but it fails (or it did the last time I tried it) or it doesn't allow us to downgrade. There is Kodi 20.alpha, and looking in Synaptic we see that there is nothing earlier. The flatpak version can be installed, but the problem with Python is not solved that way.

LTS versions are not such a bad idea

For the first time since I've been using Ubuntu, I'm going to stay on an LTS version. And by the way, I'm going to go into Synaptic and block the Kodi update. LTS versions exist for a reason, and that something is for reasons like this. But whenever I want to check how the Kodi issue is in Ubuntu 22.10, I think: Who would think of offering only the beta version of software in the official repositories when the stable one exists?