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> * Software is easy to install even if it isn't in the official store (e.g. apt). You can install any .deb package not in the "official store" simply by typin
by AndrewUnmuted 5y ago
> * Software is easy to install even if it isn't in the official store (e.g. apt).
You can install any .deb package not in the "official store" simply by typing: `dpkg -i package.deb`.
This has essentially never failed in my decade+ of using Debian-based Linux OSes.
It's pretty dang easy to install anything nowadays.
- ntauthority 5y agoThat is, assuming something is even packaged as a .deb for your distro's age in the first place. Trying to get something written using new, say, C++ runtime libraries shipped as a binary working on even a two year old Linux distro is a struggle in itself, meanwhile on Windows, the VC CRT bundled with VS2022 with C++22 support even runs fine as a bundled portable .dll down to Windows 7 (2009) and probably even before. Running modern libstdc++ (as a binary, mind you) on an otherwise 2009 distro on the other hand - unlikely. Even more so if you stray out of the GNU libc option, or want to deal with libc++ for some reason (such as cross-platform parity, as it is better behaved on Windows/Mac than libstdc++), or any other edge cases out of the usual /lib, especially for GUI apps or worse, GPU apps.
- IshKebab 5y agoYeah as long as the software is provided in .deb format, doesn't use any newer dependencies than you have, and you're using Debian or Ubuntu. Not remotely the same as Windows where it just always works.