• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    There are many things that can stop me from running a program but what distro I’m using is not one of them.

    Become distro-agnostic. Don’t be afraid of source code.

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      Seriously, look at what the pkgbuild is doing on Arch and replicate it by hand on your distro of choice. That’s all a pkgbuild is: a simple bash installation script.

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    Distrobox is your friend. Me, I like an immutable OS (kinoite) but I still want the AUR…

    distrobox-create --name arch --image archlinux:latest
    distrobox enter arch
    install yay as normal
    yay -S vscodium
    distrobox-export --app vscodium
    yay exa
    distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/exa
    exit [back to kinoite]
    exa [works]
    vscodium [works, has icon in application launcher]
    

    Try it, you might like it !

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      1 year ago

      Ooh, a fellow Kinoite user!

      I’m actually aware of Distrobox, but the thing I had in mind was for managing gaming wheel drivers, so I don’t think it’d work on distrobox. It’s not really that big of a deal honestly, I just made this meme to poke fun at it ^^’

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        Fair enough, but CUDA stuff works surprisingly well for e.g., I’d give it a go if it’s just USB.

        Kinoite Represent!

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    What software only works on Arch? If anything I see stuff that’s packaged for arch but can be installed from source on other distros without issue.

    Ubuntu-only software, on the other hand, is infuriating

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    You Linux people are funny.

    I just download the Windows versions and run them with Wine.

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        it actually is, you just append the distrobox command before it

        distrobox enter arch -- yay -Sy appname

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          A simple yay -Sy from Arch btw takes less computing power and doesn’t depend on an external dependency.

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            Any reason not to just use yay? That’s an alias for yay -Syu, which in and of itself, at least if I understood it correctly, is basically just pacman -Syu and from what I’ve read on the arch wiki -Sy is heavily discouraged.

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            But then you stuck with arch. I’ve never had any software that wasn’t a flatpak or in the Debian repos. I use Fedora.

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              I would say you are stuck on Fedora too, what is your point?

              I’ve never had any software that wasn’t a flatpak or in the Debian repos.

              There are quite a number of them, hence the reason for OP’s meme.

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                Really? I honestly have never had that problem. Can you name a few? (I’m completely serious. Don’t take this as sarcasm)

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                  There are so many software devs that package AURs because Arch has made it easy for them to do so. No need to give examples if you are totally fine with your brand of distro.

                  But whether you’ll hit the minor snag OP memes about depends on your software needs.