XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-31 07:56, pothead wrote:   
   > 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:~$   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   And what WERE those updates?   
      
   When was the last time you ran the updater?   
      
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