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    [–] foggy@lemmy.world 265 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

    This post will surely upset nobody.

    [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 181 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    the superior distro

    Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves

    [–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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 1 year ago

    I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.

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    [–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    When did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?

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    [–] xeekei@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 15 points 1 year ago

    Btw I use Arch

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    [–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Most of the air is converted deb

    [–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can you breathe converted deb?

    [–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Let me try and get bac....

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    [–] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    [–] bestnerd@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] ipacialsection@startrek.website 76 points 1 year ago

    Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.

    [–] penquin@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    [–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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 31 points 1 year ago

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

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    [–] Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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 64 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR

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    [–] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Ain’t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)

    [–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I remember alien back in the day.

    Edit: holy shit this is still maintained https://wiki.debian.org/Alien

    [–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

    holy shit this is still maintained

    The struggles of a Linux user

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    [–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is why you use glorious Debian.

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    [–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 1 year ago (1 children)

    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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    [–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

    [–] Birchoff@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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 1 year ago (3 children)

    Only available as Deb file.

    [–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

    He forgot to compile reading comprehension from source.

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    [–] db2@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)
    [–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 17 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

    Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

    [–] Baleine@jlai.lu 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

    [–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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

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    [–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

    Where distrobox

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