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i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] foggy 275 points 9 months ago (12 children)

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

This post will surely upset nobody.

[–] wreckedcarzz 182 points 9 months ago (5 children)

the superior distro

Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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 27 points 9 months ago

I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.

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[–] Dasnap 69 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Btw I use Arch

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[–] reddit_sux 132 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most of the air is converted deb

[–] wreckedcarzz 89 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you breathe converted deb?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Let me try and get bac....

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] reddit_sux 29 points 9 months ago

My other fediverse account is [email protected] just to hammer the point even more.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] bestnerd 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I use Debian btw

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] spittingimage 64 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (13 children)

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 67 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I remember alien back in the day.

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

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 22 points 9 months ago

holy shit this is still maintained

The struggles of a Linux user

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[–] hardcoreufo 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is why you use glorious Debian.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kelseybcool 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

[–] Birchoff 28 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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

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[–] skippedtoc 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Only available as Deb file.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/

It's only been around like forever.

[–] pete_the_cat 17 points 9 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 19 points 9 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.

[–] bigdog_00 18 points 9 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

[–] UnfortunateShort 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] madcaesar 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (13 children)

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

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