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One of the really fun things about switching to Linux is realizing just how much you can accomplish with a few lines of Bash.

Today I'm offering a sort of "side story" to my main series on Python packaging.

Pip 25.0 has been out for a bit over a month now; and we now also have an official blog post about the release, as well as a 25.0.1 patch for a regression.

$ stat / | grep Birth | cut -d ' ' -f 3 2022-01-24 Today (although this won't go live until the 25th in my time zone) is three years since the day I finally kicked Windows to the curb and installed Linux on my home desktop.

I've been quite busy working on both the next article in my packaging series and on the overall appearance of the blog (I wasn't able to keep that confined to the weekend, apparently).

In this post I'll talk about Pipx's major use cases, its limitations, and how to get more mileage out of it with a few simple tweaks.

You're not imagining things — the blog has a whole new look, in large part as a result of switching to the Nikola site generator.

Happy new year to all.

This post is a start of a series I've planned about how packaging currently works in Python, what's wrong with it, and how to cope with the problems.

This is a difficult post to write, largely because of the self-critique involved.