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Gimme the repo and I'll get it to compile on Arch, latest testing packages as per 2025-10-20T22:12:00 on repo.30p87.de/archlinux
What colors are your thigh highs?
Black-white, preferably pink-white. I overcompensate a lot for boymoding.
It's too funny to me that Arch of all distributions attracts the thigh /Unix socks crowd (for lack of better word). Nothing about Arch stands out for me in that regard, there's no social statement or anything, and when I was more active in the community, it wasn't known for that.
I was deep enough into Arch to run my own private repository using aurutils, but no thighs :(
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This is why you use Arch/Nix because the package is likely in their repos.
The software probably still won't work, but you can waste more time on it.
As a non IT person I find Linux way better for installing software. The sort of apps non IT people use. The Software store has most of what I need. There rest I install the Windows way. From a website. Apps with a Linux version almost always detect and offer a Linux button to click to install. I wouldn't know what to do if that didn't work. Ditch that application I guess. My distros are pretty standard. Not hacked about. My apps are not too weird. I've been doing it this way for 14+ years. Never needed the CLI either.
Both of these two cases are why Flatpaks are so attractive.
Flatpaks are better than Snaps, but properly maintained dependency trees and SBOMs are best, by a wide margin.
PopOS fucked me up with flatpaks
Gateway drug
I'm going to be honest to you, I prefer appimages.
I respect your wrong opinion
I rarely encounter them. But they usually work when I do. But, ugh, they're just kinda gross. Like, is this a .exe? No thank you. Don't give me windows trauma.
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God bless flatpak for these cases
No System Package
Build System Package
Gentoo makes it soo easy.
I honestly can't remember the last time I've come across a package that I needed that so obscure that it wasn't found somewhere as at the very least an appimage, if not a flatpak. I haven't had to build from source in I don't even know how many years now.
What? Its something I do quite regularly.
Try making music on Linux. You'll be compiling obscure shit and tweaking configs all the time.
True. But I was coming at if from the perspective of an every day user coming from Windows. email, word processing, internet, etc... Even gaming and photo editing.
The more professional the needed software gets, of course the more obscure it gets.
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Last week was the first time I think I've ever got a random Internet tarball to configure, make and make install. Program even did what it was supposed to too. I was amazed.
Glad im not the only one. Thats one thing that makes me go man, people will never leave windows for this, this is insanely complex to juat install a program.
I find it fun to learn tho
Windows; have to search online for correct website, sift through ads to find the download, install while avoiding malware or extra programs that try to install alongside.
Linux; Sudo pacman -S firefox. Done
This is true for some but it doesn't work like that in reality. Its much easier to install on windows vs linux, thats just how it is.
Don't even get started on flatpak vs .Deb vs compiling vs snap...explaining that to a windows user makes them about lose their mind.
Windows wins here. Click exe. Install. Done. AND the benefit of being allowed to install to a different hard drive, which linux will not allow without a ton of hoop jumping.
Linux is great but let's not pretend windows doesn't do certain things much better.
Also, not being able to see all your installed programs in one place because they are a blend of .Deb, snap, flatpaks, and compiled. It becomes a mess very quick if youre not careful.
It does work like that in reality for almost all programs.
For obscure stuff you can use yay or whatever other user repository you want.
yay "program name". Done
I've been doing this for years without issue.
Also you can list all your installed programs. On Arch it's pacman -Q and yay -Qm.
It's so easy a baby could do it. And apparently arch is supposed to be the most difficult.
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if you use any modern distro installing most software is braindead easy. if you have to compile something yourself (which isnt that often) it can get quite funny because one hell of a lot can go wrong.
The last picture in the meme always bothered me, because the sequence doesn't make any sense physically. (Popping the rake from mid air and doing the wrong flip and such)
So, I went on to find the sequence that I believe it was drawn from.
you think the sequence doesn't make physical sense, but skateboarding on a rake is fine?
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Things have gotten so, so much better over the last 5 or 6 years.
Flatpak, appimage, docker are just brilliant.
I recently discovered nix and am in that honeymoon phase of trying to hit every nail with that hammer.
Flatpak/flathub is your friend. I've been using Linux for 20+ years and I'm to a point where if it's not available as a deb, flatpak, system package or at the bare minimum an executable binary/script I just don't bother. Compiling should be done by the software vendor and not required of the user unless they specifically want or need to.
When the dependencies need dependencies and then those dependencies need dependencies, the rabbit hole is endless!
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no system package
install distro that has it on a chroot
Yeah sure, I gonna setup everything again just because a single piece of software is not available on my pc
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All I see when I see this is "Linux isn't quite ready for prime time".
Hopefully it gets less and less true.
I don't see that at all. This meme is referring to some niche application or to a person with their fingers all up in the nuts and bolts of their OS.
It's common for beginner-friendly desktop distros to have Firefox and LibreOffice installed out of the box. For mainstream use that covers the vast majority.
This isnt true. You only have this problem with rather obscure software (which was what I tried to install)
No, then you fix the code to work with your current system libraries and upstream the patch and version bump. This happens less on Arch, BTW ;-)
Bruh just use nix, flatpak or appimage 🗿 (we don't talk about snaps)
"Just use Flatpak."
"But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB."
"Duh, it's not 2GB total. Flatpaks share dependencies."
"I don't have any other Flatpaks on my system."
"..."
"..."
"OK, so it'll be 2GB. Your next one will be smaller, though."
"If I install one and if it shares any dependencies with the first one."
"Pff. You're just a hater."
"Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space."
“Just use Flatpak.”
“But that will use 2GB when a system package will use 34MB. Yeah, I hate that something that should be small is using 2GB of space.”
"The space consumption isn't my preference either, but I'd rather be using the app than fighting dependencies. I wish you luck with your dependency chain then."
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LMAO, back in my Slackware days (3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 7.0), If I had to build from source, which was most things, step1: ./configure step2: install the missing package step3: goto step1 until no missing packages identified step4: make step5: make install
Sometimes my packages were too old, So I would just go to step1 for each package that also needed to be newer. I'm not even a Linux Expert, and I definitely wasn't a Linux Expert then. All the building from source helps me jump into software projects and become productive real quick though.
*Laughs in Nix
*accidentally uninstalls python base package trying to fix dependency conflicts in apt
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