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Arch is Easier to Use than Debian (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So the thing with Debian and any Debian based distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint is there is no big centralized software repo like the AUR. Yes there is the apt repository but if you want something that's not in there, get ready to read the documentation or follow random guides.

For example, one of my friends wanted to download an audio tool called Reaper. On Windows this is just looking up the application and clicking on the .exe. It really depends on the dev if they include a .deb, sometimes you might need to download the .sh file or they may tell you to compile it yourself. Perhaps, you have to add a ppa. On Arch, all I have to do is Paru -S Reaper, if there are multiple Reapers I can look for that by typing Paru Reaper.

Now that Arch is so easy to install with the Archscript, and the software repo so vast and easy to use, is Debian really user friendly if you have to jump through several hoops to download programs?

Edit: yeah yeah there's flathub and stuff but that's more of a last resort, optimally, you want to get it the correct way.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The correct way is getting it from the official source, not a random user-contributed build.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Users don't contribute builds. They contribute a specification file for how the build is made, which through the AUR is downloaded and executed. You can see the package source for every AUR package, and most AUR helpers make you look at the specification file by default.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

These are download instructions from Librewolf's official website:

Ubuntu: https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/

Arch: https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/

Ubuntu is noticeably longer as you need to wget a specific link and adding the keys.

Arch is just one command from the aur whether you want to use pacman, yay, or paru

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the two steps of adding a repo and its signing key before you install a deb is too much for you, just wait until you need to compile something from source.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have installed manually before. I'm not saying that it's hard, I'm saying that arch is faster to do so since it's one command. You're not going to memorize the wget link and process to install keys for every program. Why is this so controversial?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't need to memorize them. They're literally given to you on the page. Copy, paste.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't even need to visit any page or look stuff up if I just type paru librewolf paru will search the aur for me directly in the terminal showing the amount of votes, version number, if it's orphaned or not. If I absolutely know the package name I can type in paru -S librewolf

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Arch (arch based x86_64)
Download and install

https://sourceforge.net/projects/joborun/files/r/librewolf-122.0.1-03-x86_64.pkg.tar.lz/download

or cd /tmp
mkdir libw
cd libw
wget https://git.disroot.org/joborun-pkg/jobextra/raw/commit/3f78c1796cc471eed86f817cdffc7bcaa038d5b1/librewolf/PKGBUILD

makepkg

sudo pacman -U *x86_64.pkg.tar.*

librewolf
or
firejail librewolf

@pineapplelover @catloaf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

paru -S librewolf