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2026-07-23 20:28 UTC

@veronica@explains.social @norbipeti@toot.norbipeti.eu I'm just not familiar with the different app packaging and distribution methods on Linux. I'll get their in the end 😆👍 It just seems like 4 different committees came up with 5 different ways to package and distribute apps. Some might work on any particular distro, some might not, or may not be recommended or whatever. Comming from a MS-DOS and Windows background since the 1980's it all seems frankly unnecessarily complicated. Pick one or two methods and stick with it would have been so my easier for those of us from the Second aAge of Middle Earth 😆

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@veronica@explains.social 2026-07-23 20:39

@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange I can see that. I think we (Linux folks like me, not newcomers) need to stop thinking of "Linux" as an "operating system" and more like a "family of operating systems". Of course, saying that doesn't help new folks. I'm reminded of how "just because something runs on OS/2 doesn't mean it runs on Windows 3.1". Similar DNA, but different underpinnings. "Linux" still has that: Debian isn't Fedora isn't Arch isn't openSUSE. They all do different things and I think that for many newcomers, they just think of it all as "one big Linux", but it isn't. Basically, if you're searching for something to install, avoid "install X on Linux" and think "install X on Linux Mint" or "install X on Fedora" or "install X on Ubuntu" and everything narrows down.

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