The original post: /r/debian by /u/Ok_West_7229 on 2024-12-26 21:56:19.
Title, - reading the official debian wiki, it says that it’s risky to install Spotify because of the third party repos to be added.
EDIT for clarity after some replies: I’m not interested in using flatpaks—please don’t suggest them. I don’t use flatpaks and am not a fan. I’m asking specifically whether the Spotify repo might break Debian or cause stability issues. Please stay on topic and avoid hijacking my question with unrelated suggestions. Apologies if this sounds harsh, but I’d appreciate responses that address what I wrote.
My question is, can it really cause stability issues or even break debian in the long go?
For example, if I happen to upgrade from 12 to 13 in the future, and “forget” to disable the spotify’s repo manually, would it cause big headaches?
Furthermore, I’ve been checking directly the spotify repo itself, and it seems all the required dependencies are thankfully in the official debian repos so they get pulled from there, and it only provides the spotify-client deb packages themselves (and I further inspected the .deb file also, and it creates its own separate folders under /usr/share/spotify and /bin so doesn’t seem to overwrite anything).
This is the only third party repo I would have, because it seems that on any kind of Linux distro I tried, whenever I use the spotify-client (so, the program itself and not the website) I get no ads, even by not being premium subscriber lol. Yes, I know there’s browser version + ublock workaround, but for me, the program itself is more convenient to use. I wanted to use some more straightforward approach, by using Clementine, because back in the times, it supported spotify also, which sadly no longer the case :/ (their website is outdated, they didn’t remove spotify from their list)
TL;DR: anyone using spotify repos under debian, without experiencing any stability issues or breakages, and did main version upgrades (from 10 to 11, or 11 to 12) without issues by not disabling this repo?