XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: jack@handsome.com   
      
   On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:43:09 +0000, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
      
   > On 2025/10/28 23:14:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> You have the choice. You can download things and build from source.   
   >   
   > That seems to crop up more often than I'd expect. I don't think I've   
   > _ever_ had to "build from source" for Windows things (granted, I'm not   
   > usually offered the _opportunity_, except things on github).   
   >   
   >> Quite often you will find that somebody else has done the work, and   
   >> offers a third-party repository that hooks into the standard   
   >> package-management system so you can install from there as easily as   
   >> you can from the standard distro repos.   
   >   
   > So, basically, like Windows - just you have to stick with the chosen   
   > flavour, or spend a lot of time managing.   
   >   
   >   
   >> There are distros -- like Gentoo -- where *everything* on your system   
   >> is built by you, from source.   
   > Thirty or forty years ago, I might have liked that opportunity. Now, I   
   > CBA. Not necessarily proud of that, but am certainly not alone (possibly   
   > even in the majority, though not here).   
      
   Quite apart from the fact that 99% of computer users wouldn't even know   
   what "build from source" means, let alone how to do it. I must admit I was   
   a bit flabbergasted when one of my first help questions to a Linux forum   
   came back with that as a feasible solution.   
      
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