Neko the gameri hate that it's very often like this
einfach_orangensaftthe struggle is real
produnisYehaa, a .deb file, letz install and just have fun
Just unpack it you say?
I don’t care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.
DestideMost of the air is converted deb
Midnight WolfCan you breathe converted deb?
NightoftheLemmyLet me try and get bac…
So nice of you to hit send before passing out. You’re a true hero.
pewgar_seemsimandroidhopefully he didn’t bat
I would have never guessed an Arch linux user would go by reddit_sux
My other fediverse account is [email protected] just to hammer the point even more.
👍Maximum Derek👍As someone who’s used debian based distros for 20+ years now, I see no issue with this. ;)
I use Debian btw
Testing or bust.
Bookworm
Did on home PC, Bookworm on work laptop
Avid AmoebaAs an Ubuntu user of 17+ years, I concur.
Only problem is remembering to keep it updated.
RichardWhere distrobox
This right here is the reason why after district hopping I decided to settle into the Debian universe. Linux is a ton of fun to play and tinker with but if you want to use your computer to do actual work you need to use an OS with software avaliable to run.
Of course Debian is the only real Linux any user would ever need to run. Free as in freedom, all the software and been running since the beginning. Why bother bother anything else.
Lexi SneptaurArch is viable because the AUR is full of converted debs and package managers keep things up to date. Most distros have a method to install this kind of software but honestly universal out of the box flatpak support can’t come soon enough for consumer distros. We need canonical to give up on snap for Ubuntu desktop
Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.
This post will surely upset nobody.
the superior distro
Finally, puppy linux is getting the recognition it deserves
Puppy ftw
zaphI 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.
flash drive shaped like a credit card
Wait, what?
pimento64Thin, credit-card-sized USB drives are a popular promotional gimmick because they have a practical use but also have a large surface area for promoting your brand. Most often given out as vendor gifts.
Weird, but interesting!
xigoiIf you donate to the FSF, you get a member card with pre-installed Linux.
and GNU?
I think you mean Hannah Montana Linux.
spittingimagePuppy’s awesome. I’ve used it on a laptop so old I had to install a bootloader in the MBR so it would boot from USB.
Dave.Red Hat 5.0 for lyfe.
Kernel 2.0.36 represent! ✊
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.
TRIGGERED
Btw I use Arch
is there a way to make it work like a rolling release of sorts? i’d want to use debian, but i don’t want to stay with old packages and wait 2 years for an update
You could just go with Debian unstable. I rarely ran into issues while running it in a rolling release style.
Debian testing might also work for you. But it will have a freeze window before each release.
this_is_routerAs will have debian unstable. That’s the way it goes, for a few months every few years it slows down until the new stable gets released. Testing is just 10 days after unstable to avoid the biggest bugs.
Never had big problems with debian unstable in 15 years though, as long as you use apt-listbugs
You could use debian testing. It’s a somewhat “rolling-release” model. You will get more up to date packages with more stability too.
You could also use unstable, but I wouldn’t recommend it personally.
sparky Linux is based on Debian and it has stable and rolling release
agent_flounderLinux mint ftw
Savage.
DasnapWhen did TempleOS start supporting .deb files?
asudoxAgreed. Debian Linux is just a children distro with a fibonacci logo that god created.
BRB. Sharpening my teeth.
Most of such packages, be it deb rpm or really whatever, have their AUR entry, install and run fine on Arch.
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.
pkgs.org with
pkgconifg() as the search string: let me introduce myself
Packages for Linux and Unix - pkgs.org
Search and download Linux packages for Adélie, AlmaLinux, Alpine, ALT Linux, Amazon Linux, Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, KaOS, Mageia, Mint, NetBSD, OpenMandriva, openSUSE, OpenWrt, RHEL, PCLinuxOS, Rocky Linux, Slackware, Solus, Ubuntu and Void Linux distributions
Nobody needs a website, literally just
dnf install pkgconfig(libfoo-1) or dnf install /usr/include/fooheader.h. Most sane package manager ever.
That’s a thing?? Amazing, I just found out about this not long ago, now seeing that being integrated in the package manager too is next level!
It’s actually just metadata in the rpms, nothing special. OpenSUSE adds even more like “typelib(GTK-3.0)”.
Magister?!? I’m not sure to understand this post? I will only install stuff that are .deb, not big image or snap or whatever?!?
What’s the problem with deb when you are using debian based distro? Else you can easily extract the content and cp it in place
The meme is about running a non-Debian distro and finding only .deb installers.
SamsyThx, captain.
uisThen treat is as tarball
but what about people that are not on debian or debian based distros… like me?
Ding dong your distro is wrong
I will disclaim I’ve only used Debian based so I’m in no place to judge.
DJDarrenAs someone who’s never used Linux, TIL that software doesn’t work across all flavours of Linux.
now you know 😫