How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2024
805 points (97.4% liked)
linuxmemes
20707 readers
542 users here now
I use Arch btw
Sister communities:
- LemmyMemes: Memes
- LemmyShitpost: Anything and everything goes.
- RISA: Star Trek memes and shitposts
Community rules
- Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
- Be civil
- Post Linux-related content
- No recent reposts
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I’m currently on a atomic distro, so how I get my software from favorite to least favorite is this:
finally, somebody in this thread who doesn't live in the past.
System package manager is for system binaries. Not for applications.
Have you met nix?
Nix is cool but also incredibly painful
I use nix package manager on fedora silverblue. It's awesome.
Awesomely painful
Why is it painful for you?
It just is overly complex. Nix has its own environment instead of just being a regular package manager.
os-tree is slow as molasses
As it should be, don't do that.
Doctor, when I do this it hurts...
Also, you're creating a disk image...
It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.
Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.