How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?
If not in Fedora repos or any Copr, then AppImage (manage using Gear Lever for that ease of use) then Flatpak
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Linux noob here, can someone ELI5 why snaps are bad? And how does .deb works?
Snaps are a standard for apps that Ubuntu's parent company, Canonical, has been trying to push for years.
The issue that most people have with them, is that Canonical controls the servers, which are closed source. Meaning that only they can distribute Snap software, which many Linux users feel violates the spirit & intention of the wider free and open source community.
Appimages and Flatpaks are fully open source standards, anybody can package their software in those ways and distribute them however they want.
.deb files are software packaged for the Debian distribution, and frequently also work with other distros that are based on Debian, like Linux Mint.
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The snap store is some proprietary store Canonical runs, and snaps are friggin huge in size. I don't really know though as I don't use Ubuntu anymore
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Nix, if not in nix pkg for nix, then nix
.deb first and then flatpak if not available as on deb repo or if deb version is outdated. Never used appimage or snap. Rpm just as good as deb when I use Fedora. Flatpaks are much larger in size which is why I first go with the deb version.
Artix repos > Arch repos > existing AUR package > create my own AUR package
No need to use any of these flatpak/appimage/snaps when I can just make a package for my distro. Most software is not difficult to package.
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How do you guys get software that is not in your distributionβs repositories?
Since i use a gaming arch based distro (Cachyos) the aur
AppImage, build from source, or don't bother
cant we just have .deb?
On arch?
If you look at some aur packages, it's probably deb...
we got tar.zst
And windows has .zip? That's not the same...
i mean arch linux deb version is tar.zst no joke
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Native repos > AUR > compile from source > Flatpak
Mine is
AppImage > Native repos > AUR > Manually compiling from source > Finding an alternative
I don't like installing software that doesn't need to be installed, thus I like AppImage. Pretty portable. That also applies to compiling from source. Yes, my home directory is a mess.