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I wish there was a right click install button for deb files (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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I know it's not that hard $ dpkg -i but opening the terminal gives normies an aneurysm and thanks to the crazy gatekeeping gen alpha doesn't know what a file type is now.

I use Ubuntu btw. Personally, the App store's on Linux confused me a ton, setting up Flatpak and some other package repositories. I much preferred the windows way, shocker, with just downloading and double-click the exe file.

Do I have to make a pull request myself to get this done, or what is the debate on this?

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@MangoPenguin @RommieDroid It’s more so that the people working on “beginner friendly” Linux distros are pushing users towards Software Centers/App stores these days.Those of us who are familiar with the old ways don’t really have much trouble, but there’s stuff that is a big pain, like #LibreOffice Installing the latest version of that is easier to do in the terminal and can’t be done as conveniently as what you propose, though I wish it was that easy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    @bryceac @MangoPenguin @RommieDroid LibreOffice is certainly an exception. One deb, no problem, but a whole screen full of them? And just running dpkg -i may get you two instances depending on the update? I finally went for flatpak on this one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @demerara @MangoPenguin @RommieDroid I just try to find the current way to uninstall the preloaded version and then run dpkg -i *.deb in the extracted directory for the latest, but I can kind of see how that can be possible.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not so sure about those beginner-friendly distros, they seem a little doggy and miss out on the massive work that the Debian and Ubuntu teams do that a smaller team can not. Snap is good for small, one time use or untrusted apps. But most of the time, its performance is really slow. It needs some work.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    @RommieDroid Most of them are based on Ubuntu, such as Mint and the stagnated Pop! OS.I can’t say what they are all like, but Ubuntu and its family are all the ones adopting a software center/App store these days.In the past, I remember using Synaptic for searching for software, which was just a GUI front end for APT.I’ve been using Nala lately in my VMs though.

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