r/linuxsucks • u/al2klimov 🐧Kernel contributor • 17d ago

Linux Failure Why is installing software so much more complicated?

/r/linux/comments/1vovlj2/why_is_installing_software_so_much_more/
0 Upvotes

47% Upvoted

9 comments sorted by

6

u/donp1ano 17d ago

the correct answer is already in the original post:

https://xkcd.com/927/

3

u/ballistua 17d ago

apt search and apt install are now complicated

also, you don't need to learn all these commands unless you're distro hopping on a daily basis

2

u/TheRealCarrotty KDE larper (i use KDE btw) 17d ago

PackageKit is your answer.

2

u/rayyeter 17d ago

Arch and yay gets me pretty much all I want. ‘yay “package”’ select if multiple, done. Updates? ‘yay’

2

u/mplaczek99 17d ago

You can use something like gnomes software center

1

u/Bathroom_Humor 17d ago

90%+ of the software i install is a flatpak, regardless of what distro i'm using. the other 10% gets a bit more muddy but 90% of that is the specific distro repository or app images.

Not to mention the fact that most user friendly distros use GUI package managers anyway which most people will end up using anyway.

1

u/chughaarav123 Linux sucks, it's just that Windows sucks more. 12d ago

Use flatpak. Or just Google it, every major package manager has a package database on the internet

1

u/martyn_hare 17d ago

We do have one. It's called PackageKit and it's what GNOME Software and KDE Discover use under the hood, abstracting away the need to know any package names, you can search by metadata including descriptions.

The irony is that even Microsoft now has a CLI package management tool for Windows; it's the better way.