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    [–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Installing software on Linux almost never involves "copying and running random bits of code" unless you have a need for some really obscure program. Learn how to use your distribution's package manager.

    [–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Learn how to use your distribution's package manager.

    Also

    sudo apt update

    sudo apt upgrade

    covers what, about 60% of Linux desktops?

    [–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    And sudo apt full-upgrade when a new OS version is available.

    full-upgrade is the same as upgrade except it'll remove old packages if required. (e.g. programs that don't support the new version and hold back the upgrade due to old dependencies). When upgrading Debian to a new release, I usually first run upgrade, then run full-upgrade and read the output very carefully before continuing.

    [–] RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

    if we’re being fair, it did involve a lot of that historically. Package managers weren’t always around and even after they became established, there was still a lot of fiddling with bad drivers and various distributions had policies which didn’t allow certain software with certain licenses to be setup through their package repository and so on and so forth. Sure nowadays this is less of an issue, but then windows security is also much better than it used to be. People here seem to want to compare the latest Ubuntu to windows 98

    [–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

    I mean, bash is a code.

    Till next time