How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution’s repositories?

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    I hate fucking snap. It might be enough to make me switch distros if Ubuntu keeps up with it (which I am sure they intend to).

    The continual “you have new snaps” or whatever it was message every time I’m just trying to have a web browser open made me eventually figure out how to install firefox for real on all of my computers.

    EDIT: I think you may have convinced me to try out Debian on my next OS installation.

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      3 months ago

      The Firefox snap was the reason I left Ubuntu. (Or, the last straw, at least.) Fedora has been wonderful.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Try debian, they improved so much over the past decade, they’re a better Ubuntu than Ubuntu now without any bullshit.

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          3 months ago

          It used to be really outdated and missing new applications, with a kernel 1 major version behind.

          All that is fixed, they even have good support for new architectures like riscv on par with Ubuntu.

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      3 months ago

      Make a script to extract it to /opt/local and make a symlink.

      You’ll end up using it so much and it’s an easier upgrade on your terms.