Linux systems and their software set benefit from getting software quite easily. Still there different ways to do so. What's you preferred flavor of installing stuff?
@tuxedocomputers from my personal experience deb/rpm packages work best for me and are the most stable. But flatpak especially with flathub is very convenient. It has most apps you need and works crossplatform
@tuxedocomputers I wish I understood the options. All I know is that installing stuff in Linux produces the same sensations of total dread as installing things in Windows 3.1. Apple seems to thrive due to this: I have NEVER had a SINGLE problem installing something on an Apple MacOS system...
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Flatpak desperately needs cli app support. I use it for most all my apps and so far so good. Resource intensive apps run well and my only issue with it is inconsistent themeing
preferred: anything that comes from the app developers themselves, be it a custom deb repo, an app image, or a binary tarball, because that's what's properly maintained.
ok: distro repos for things that haven't changed significantly in five years
if need be: pip, cargo, npm, compile from sources using build instructions
avoid: snap, flatpak, docker and anything else that wastes gigabytes of SSD space and pulls equally large updates whenever I'm on an LTE connection.
@tuxedocomputers There is no installation system that competes with openSUSE's 1-click (especially on Tumbleweed). The point is that it is difficult to guarantee that any software is available in rpm, which makes a system like flatpak can be very useful.
@karlggestd But that 1-click just runs YaST just like apturl does for Debian land. While it sure is convenient, it still depends on option one of the poll.
@tuxedocomputers I did not say that 1-click doesn't use rpm. I only said it's the simplest form to install software BUT needs someone making the RPM package AND in that context flatpak can work better.
However, as a relatively freshman in #NixOS (https://www.karl-voit.at/2023/09/12/nix/) I tend to think that the initial effort in creating a NixOS setup is rather huge, yes. However, when you do have it in a more or less stable form, you'll spend much less time with updates, HW switches, ...
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