How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?
I .... I don't have any of these problems....
Am I missing out on shit? Have I Grandpa Simpsoned?
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
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AUR. If it doesn't exist on AUR (very unlikely, but happens sometimes), I make a package for it.
On non-arch distros, I often use LURE.
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I hate fucking snap. It might be enough to make me switch distros if Ubuntu keeps up with it (which I am sure they intend to).
The continual "you have new snaps" or whatever it was message every time I'm just trying to have a web browser open made me eventually figure out how to install firefox for real on all of my computers.
EDIT: I think you may have convinced me to try out Debian on my next OS installation.
The Firefox snap was the reason I left Ubuntu. (Or, the last straw, at least.) Fedora has been wonderful.
They've been doing snaps for a few years already so it already seems like they're keeping up with this bullshit (in fact they're putting more and more stuff there) It's already the reason people stopped recommending Ubuntu to new users and instead go for Mint or Pop!OS
Try debian, they improved so much over the past decade, they're a better Ubuntu than Ubuntu now without any bullshit.
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Appimages are crap too, but at least there is progress with AppMan, repos and that sandboxing solution.
Snaps are only sandboxed with Apparmor and snapd only allows a single repo (which contained malware multiple times) so get the hell off my lawn XD
Just use flatpak. It runs and installs local but still has the benefits of a package manager
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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?
Since i use a gaming arch based distro (Cachyos) the aur
as it should be, nobody likes proprietary vendor-locked formats that get shoved down your throat
curl
AUR or flatpak.
Honestly the longer I spend daily driving Linux the more I enjoy using flatpaks...
AppImage, build from source, or don't bother