lemmyreadersuperfile - A pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
What’s the big selling point compared to
ranger or yazi?
Taasz/WoofI haven’t used any of the 3, but from a look over them superfile looks a lot more user friendly and has a nicer overall look.
Glibc is the gnu c library. You wouldn’t just download that from apt. I’m surprised your Linux distro doesn’t already have that installed.
It’s definitely a big learning curve with how complex installing things on linux is haha, I’m still used to windows just open the exe installer and that’s it.
Yeah I hear that. I will say aptitude made my life a lot easier in terms of installing things with its recommended fixes.
I mean there’s that, but it’s a lot of work for a dev too.
I would rather Linux just be able to detect what’s missing and install it for me, or just have the required stuff ship inside the binary.
It was always nice with windows installers because they would come with the needed components, or windows would just prompt to install them automatically.
I guess that’s essentially what Flatpak solves too!
I would rather Linux just be able to detect what’s missing and install it for me. In the case of a lot of missing components, what it says is missing will be named completely different from the package you need to install which makes it really hard.
That does happen, but Linux doesn’t have anything to do with installing packages, your package manager does. If this package was installed through apt for example, it would also download all of the dependencies. But this package is using a makefile to build and install, therefore it has nothing to do with your package manager.
Tldr: use the package manager, and don’t use DIY packages if you don’t want to DIY
Additional package managers like flatpak and nix solve different issues:
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dependency mismatch: let’s say libreoffice and this package require a different version of glibc -> flatpak downloads both versions and symlinks them in a different location in order for each package to have the correct version while not impacting your system and the glibc your DE is using
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newer packages: Debian freezes packages for 2+ years, flatpak gives you a fresh version