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But why would they have XYZ distro? Whoever sells machines with Linux pre-installed sells them with Ubuntu. Ok, so you turn the argument around and say, "Fine,
by _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
But why would they have XYZ distro? Whoever sells machines with Linux pre-installed sells them with Ubuntu. Ok, so you turn the argument around and say, "Fine, but their beloved software only works on Fedora. So what then?" Then someone packages up that software in a Snap, an Appimage, or a Flatpak and they install that software (in a not dissimilar fashion to what they might be used to from other OSes).
- pjmlp 8y agoThe large majority of the time that someone doesn't exist for anything outside distribution repos.
- qwerty456127 8y agoIIRC it only takes a click to add a PPA (a 3rd-party repo) in Ubuntu.
- pjmlp 8y agoThe theme is about ordinary users, not power users. And even then, the software needs to be available from such PPA source and the specific user is required to be running Ubuntu.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoWhat do you mean? All sorts of things get packaged into Snaps etc.
- pjmlp 8y agoNot by someone doing it for all major distributions in a consistent way for all major commercial Linux desktop software offerings.