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[-] foggy@lemmy.world 274 points 2 years ago

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

This post will surely upset nobody.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 181 points 2 years ago

the superior distro

Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 years 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 26 points 2 years ago

I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago

When did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?

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[-] xeekei@lemm.ee 52 points 2 years 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 17 points 2 years ago

Btw I use Arch

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[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 132 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Most of the air is converted deb

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago

Can you breathe converted deb?

[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

Let me try and get bac....

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[-] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] ipacialsection@startrek.website 80 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

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[-] Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

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

[-] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ainโ€™t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

holy shit this is still maintained

The struggles of a Linux user

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

This is why you use glorious Debian.

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[-] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 34 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

stick it into a distrobox container and then package that into a flatpak on the AUR. ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ‘

[-] kelseybcool@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

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

[-] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

[-] Birchoff@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Only available as Deb file.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.

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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years 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 2 years 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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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years 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 19 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

[-] Baleine@jlai.lu 35 points 2 years ago

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

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

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