I know I said in my last post I’m a noob, and, i still am, I’m just a noob who can follow a YouTube tutorial. I installed Arch, not only for its minimalistic install, but also because I love the AUR. Everything I could ever want to install is there, and anyone who wants to upload their files can. This gives a windows-like install experience, which, pardon my… spanish, is actually pretty good. Any program is free to be uploaded and installed by anyone.
My question to you is: If you do not use an arch-based distro, how do you go about installing software? I’ve heard people say that “the default package manager is enough” but I can’t be the only person who installs niche software. I wouldn’t want to only be able to install packages hopefully approved by my distro. Flatpaks are kind of annoying, in my opinion? It’s not a native install of a package, it’s sandboxed (which can be good in some cases, but in general just an inconvenience.) Compiling from source is too hardcore for me, so props if that is you, however, non-FOSS software has to be moved by hand to its specific folders and .desktop files have to be made by text. If you don’t use the AUR, how do you go about your Linux experience?
P.S. Hope you like the new sux/teal logo!
I’m on OpenSUSE, so we have OBS, which is kind of like the AUR except packages are built on the distro’s servers instead of end user machines.
I used Arch for ~5 years, and I honestly don’t miss the AUR much. I only have a handful of packages installed from OBS because the repositories have everything else I need.
If I need something that isn’t packaged (very rare), I just build it from source myself. It’s not a big deal.
If I ever decide to leave the aur, opensuse is almost certainly where im going. Ive tried it before, and the software is awesome.
The only reason I left is because my Nvidia driver kept breaking. I had the same problem with OpenSUSE, but at least snapper/BTRFS makes it really easy to do a rollback. I could totally set up the same with Arch, but I would’ve needed to reinstall since my root was ext4.
So I tried something new and decided to stay (I also really like having my servers and desktop on the same set of tools).
I’m not super opinionated about distros anymore, I just use what works.
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