Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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I’m curious to know how you all handle the limited package selection in the default Debian repositories. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by shapis@lemmy.ml to c/debian@lemmy.ml

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I love the idea of trying Debian but every time I try to ditch Arch for it I end up just giving up after not being able to find all the packages I need in the repos.

How do you guys deal with that? I’m not even talking about them being out of date. I’m talking about them missing altogether.

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[–] silmarine@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Install flatpak and/or distrobox and you have everything you need.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How does Distrobox work? Is it as simple a

$ distrobox install app $ app

And it runs fine ?

[–] arality@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Think of it like a virtual machine. I installed an arch base image, and install the aur version of vscodium. You have to export the app, to have a start menu button. but it's all relatively simple. It's pretty well documented in their github.

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