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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 274 points 10 months ago

Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.

This post will surely upset nobody.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 182 points 10 months ago

the superior distro

Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago

I ordered something from someone awhile back and it came with a free flash drive in the shape of a credit card. It had pictures of puppies on it so naturally it's a puppy linux drive now.

This is entirely irrelevant but hopefully someone gets a smile out of it.

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

When did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?

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[-] xeekei@lemm.ee 51 points 10 months ago

You're right! If a deb file exists then surely it's in the AUR. ABS will repackage it seamlessly for you and then install it directly with Pacman.

[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

Btw I use Arch

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[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 132 points 10 months ago

I don't care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 63 points 10 months ago

Most of the air is converted deb

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 89 points 10 months ago

Can you breathe converted deb?

[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

Let me try and get bac....

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[-] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 18 points 10 months ago

I would have never guessed an Arch linux user would go by reddit_sux

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

My other fediverse account is reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyi just to hammer the point even more.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 10 months ago

As someone who's used debian based distros for 20+ years now, I see no issue with this. ;)

[-] bestnerd@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago
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[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 80 points 10 months ago

Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 72 points 10 months ago

That's where the AUR comes in. Some neckbeard somewhere has already made an AUR package of that.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

Then we should appreciate them. Is it fair to call them neckbeards when they toil away at the code coalface for our benefit?

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 34 points 10 months ago

Well ... do they have a neckbeard? /s

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[-] Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

Shit half the time it's right in the main repo under Extra.

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 10 months ago

This is why Arch is the best. Forget the rolling release, it's the sheer size of the repos for me.

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[-] art@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago

Nothing Distrobox can't fix. I can run AUR, RPM, and even those deb files that only run on Ubuntu for some damn reason on my Debiain system.

It's probably already in your default repos too.

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[-] satnififu@lemmy.ml 48 points 10 months ago

Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR

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[-] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ain’t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remember alien back in the day.

Edit: holy shit this is still maintained https://wiki.debian.org/Alien

[-] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

holy shit this is still maintained

The struggles of a Linux user

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

This is why you use glorious Debian.

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[-] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 34 points 10 months ago

Thankfully RHEL/Centos/Fedora also get attention thanks to the large corporate influence.

Anything else can just be compiled from scratch, after spending 6 hours trying to figure out what ajfiwn-0-libs-dev is in redhat land, only to find out it was libfiwn-devel all along.

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

stick it into a distrobox container and then package that into a flatpak on the AUR. 😎👍

[-] kelseybcool@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

I know all the words that aren't nouns in that sentence!

[-] OneCardboardBox 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

distrobox: Tool for creating one-off containers of a different Linux distro.

container: A virtual OS environment that runs on your computer, but doesn't know that it's running in your computer. It's not the same as a VM or emulator.

flatpak: A tool designed by RedHat for running sandboxed Linux programs in any environment. Flatpak can either refer to the system as a whole (eg: "You need to install flatpak on your machine to use our tools") or an individual program packaged for the flatpak system (eg: "You must download the latest flatpak of Firefox").

AUR: The Arch User Repository. A collection of installation scripts to add software to Arch Linux. These scripts are not owned or maintained by anyone officially affiliated with Arch, so you can find AUR packages for almost anything.

So, the comment becomes: Stick it in a dedicated environment designed to run Debian. Then package it so anyone can run it. Then make it easy for anyone running Arch Linux to install it.

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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 28 points 10 months ago

Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

[-] Birchoff@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

That's still just mid level. Cool people codes everything from scratch by just looking at some pictures

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[-] skippedtoc@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Only available as Deb file.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago

He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

I don't know what the Linux community's consensus on appimages are, but I wouldn't mind if people made more appimages because, for the few distros I've used, appimages just usually work.

[-] airbussy@lemmy.one 21 points 10 months ago

AppImages are definitely convient to use. However the two issues I have with them are that there's no easy way to find them (eg flathub) and they're not automatically integrated with the DE. Requiring a tool that manages AppImages to make it easier.

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[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 10 months ago
[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I was gonna say "has no one in here heard of alien?". I've rarely ever had to use it... because I use Arch.

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[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Debtap is suprisingly easy to use after switching to arch (highly recommend), but i actually love .deb files. Obviously it's a slight risk to the user in the similar way dot EXE's can be for windows , but they really do simplify package management for when you're newer to linux.

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

We don't have this kind of weakness on Arch. Apes together strong. Porting magic language to our world.

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[-] bigdog_00@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

BlendOS Will let you install virtually any package format through containerization, but it shows up just as if it was a native app. It's pretty neat to see and I hope more distros adopt this

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 35 points 10 months ago

Deb files are debian packages, so if you're not on debian you can't install it

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

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