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Terrible way to run a system. Most distro contain all the software you need in repos. Package managers are some of the greatest thing about smartphones. It is
by constantcrying 3y ago
Terrible way to run a system. Most distro contain all the software you need in repos.
Package managers are some of the greatest thing about smartphones. It is trivial to install and keep up to date all your software. They also aren't walled gardens at all. You are free to add repos all you want.
Also smartphone package manager precede desktop package managers. It just was a good idea.
- rc00 3y ago> Also smartphone package manager precede desktop package managers. It just was a good idea. Synaptic existed over 20 years ago[1]. This is before the first smartphone ever existed. 1. https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~synaptic-developers/synaptic/trunk/files https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~synaptic-developers/synaptic/t...
- constantcrying 3y agoSorry, I meant to write the opposite. The other way makes no sense.
- superkuh 3y ago> Most distro contain all the software you need in repos. Most software in the world is not packaged but I get that everyone has different tastes and ways of doing things. It's like how I'm fine with my car's defaults; it takes me places, I don't change it or add parts (like most people don't). My computers I do customize though.
- constantcrying 3y agoSure and if you know what you are doing and accept the risks its a fine thing to do, but it isn't a good idea to actually encourage that behavior in new users. The argument I have seen here that it is the way new users want to install software, so that should be the way to do it. But encouraging users towards bad behavior, because you don't want to force them to learn anything new, is completely unhelpful. If the user doesn't accept that he has to learn the new Operating System and has to find alternatives to his software (like ditching chrome for chromium) he will never be happy.