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[–] majster@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Downloading .deb from internet directly is a recipe for breakage on update. Appimages are analogous to .exe in windowsland. Proprietary vendors not being up to speed with Linux distro landscape is a very real issue

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Right, that's my whole point. "Installing software" should not be such a minefield where basically unless the package version you need is in Discover or whatever, you have to learn about the dozen+ different ways an application can be packaged and the various footguns of each.

edit: I want to install a service and it's not on Discover. Do I want the package source? The flatpak? The snap? The appimage? The .deb? The .rpm? The docker image? The podman image? Build from source from GitHub? Or the .tar.gz? Or they just published a shell script and said "just run this as root".

And for each of the above, which one do I want? Especially if you're not on a mainstream distro so if it says "oh use this if you're on Ubuntu 26.04" and you have to confirm "okay, under the hood my Mint distro uses Ubuntu 24.10 as its package source".

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