How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I never claimed I was trying to “sway over newbies”? Do what you want, this is just my personal preference.

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      3 months ago

      My bad, I didn’t emphasize the Your-way-is-perfectly-fine-part at all and focused more on underlining how it doesn’t work for everyone which made it look like I was completely opposed to you.

      I wanted to say that both ways, flatpak/snap/appimage and self packaging / user repos are perfectly fine in their ways. The first may be more targeted towards newbies and people who do not want to hassle around with dependencies and the latter is for the more experimental kind of person.

      If it works for you and you are happy then there is no reason to change anything. Having the freedom to decide how our OS should be is what drove most of us to Linux in the first place.

      In that regard I fully agree with you and especially with “Do what you want, this is just my personal preference.”