this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
1865 points (98.0% liked)
Linux
50208 readers
2461 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Package managers are cool right until the moment you need several versions of the same app or several instances of the same version of the same app. Or something is fatally outdated in the repos. I'll stick to my standalone apps, thanks.
That's gonna be janky on Windows too depending on the app.
Such apps are quite rare.
If that's a common requirement for you than sure do whatever works for you, I'm more than convinced that Linux has solutions for this, from the top of my head appimages, flatpaks and pkgbuilds. I'm rolling arch without a worry and it's smooth sailing.
On the rare occasions that becomes necessary, I would install the additional versions through the package manager — I think that's easy, at least it's easy for different versions of programming language environments
I'd install additional copies of the same software as standalone or I'd run the additional copies in containers — but I can't think of a use case for that that couldn't be served by running the one copy multiple times