I use a simple cross-platform privacy-respecting free and open source text expansion utility called espanso (currently version 2.2.1). I like it, but I cannot really recommend it as it has some stability issues for me and a number of other users that require ugly workarounds. Still, if you desperately need a text expansion utility and you’re allergic to proprietary solutions, it can be made to work.
I upgraded my main daily driver to Fedora 41 yesterday, and espanso stopped working. On startup, I’d get the error:
error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
If you need a quick fix, I’ve found that symlinking libtiff.so.5 to the current version seems to work just fine:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.6.0.2 /usr/lib64/libtiff.so.5
I just wanted to put this out there in case someone needs it before the espanso team can implement a fix. I imagine there might be some side effects with other software from “fixing” things this way, but it’s working here and it might get you back in production quickly with minimal disruption.
—2p