XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-12-31, Chris Ahlstrom  wrote:   
   > Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-30 13:19, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >> "installing an application takes mere seconds."   
   >>   
   >>>> Data is data, it doesn't magically come down the pipe faster to a   
   >>>> Linux system.   
   >>>   
   >>> And yet they do.   
   >   
   > The reason is that a Linux application usually finds that all of   
   > the dependencies it needs are *already* installed. Saves time.   
   >   
   >> Give an example.   
   >>   
   >> Show me a Linux app the equivalent of a macOS app that magically   
   >> installs in "seconds".   
   >   
   > On a Debian system, updating/installing 300 packages takes a few   
   > minutes.   
   >   
   > As for a specific package: OBS Studio   
      
   That is correct.   
   It's so easy even *I* can manage it.   
   My packages are up to date but here's an example.   
      
   pothead@xxxxx:~$ sudo apt update   
   Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security trixie-security InRelease   
   Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]   
   Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease   
   Fetched 140 kB in 0s (688 kB/s)   
   All packages are up to date.   
   pothead@xxxxx:~$   
      
      
      
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