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0 pointssymlinkk5y ago0 comments

I would say for any piece of software, if the vendor themselves provide a package for your distro, use that, not the distro version.

In fact I’ll go a step further and say Windows and macOS got this right, in that third party developers should do the work to “package” their apps.

It would be insane for Microsoft to maintain packages for every piece of software that ships on Windows, but somehow that’s the situation we’re in with Linux.

Hopefully Snap or Flatpak changes this!

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yjftsjthsd-h5y ago

> It would be insane for Microsoft to maintain packages for every piece of software that ships on Windows, but somehow that’s the situation we’re in with Linux.

And this is why installing ex. Filezilla on Linux is safe and easy, and doing the same on Windows is neither.

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yjftsjthsd-h5y ago

> It would be insane for Microsoft to maintain packages for every piece of software that ships on Windows, but somehow that’s the situation we’re in with Linux.

And this is why installing ex. Filezilla on Linux is safe and easy, and doing the same on Windows is neither.

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