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N00b cannot find apps to install (nord.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by Tuuktuuk@nord.pub to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

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Okay, so, last time I used SuSE was with SuSE 8.0, that I eventually upgraded to SuSE 8.2, IIRC, until I started feeling like "nah, this isn't my thing", and moved to Ubuntu when that thing came out. And then it's been mostly Linux Mint since that one came to existence.

And now I'm getting a bit fed up with some stuff about my current Ubuntu installation and, since enough weeks have passed since the previous try, decided to already give SuSE another go.

Anyway, it feels odd how narrow the software catalogue seems to be. For Matrix I only seem to have nheko, and that's it. No Element, no FluffyChat. Just nheko. Might work just fine, but it's butt-ugly. And it took some hunting to even figure out it exists. zypper search matrix didn't find it.

How does one actually properly find programs to install for this thing?

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[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm new on OpenSUSE as well, so my answer might not be good. But i think flatpak is pre-installed and another source for a lot apps, like FluffyChat and Element.

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

fluffychat only has official flatpak versions for Linux. install flatpak and search there or get it on flathub.

element has no official package for opensuse, but does have experimental and community packages. you can get the repository info from their website.

[–] turkalino@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I prefer to install applications as flatpaks, using flathub via the included Discover application.

I pretty much only use zypper when I need to install a dependency for development work

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

https://software.opensuse.org/packages