XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2026-01-02 15:33, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 08:45:51 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >   
   >> Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025-12-31 10:15, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>> Nope, I didn't need to. I'll leave that to you Apple zealots.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Or do Linux users have some special ESP power to simply know the   
   >>>>> command necessary?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> :-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> See above.   
   >>>   
   >>> I see.   
   >>>   
   >>> So it's easy and fast to install apps in Linux...   
   >>   
   >> Yes.   
   >>   
   >>> ...once you've customized it with additional tools?   
   >>   
   >> No.   
   >>   
   >> All distros have a package manager. Each package manager has one or more   
   >> easy front-ends. Each distro has a large list of packages.   
   >>   
   >> For some less popular packages, you might need to add another repository   
   >> to the list of places to get packages.   
   >>   
   >> For Arch Linux, there is a user-repository for packages not in the   
   >> default install.   
   >>   
   >> And in some cases (such as apps/libraries on GitHub), you might need to   
   >> build from source code.   
   >   
   > I went the EndeavourOS route which includes yay in the default install. I   
   > haven't dug deeply but it appears to handle the AUR builds nicely.   
      
   I wanted to reinstall EndeavourOS when I decided to come back to Linux   
   this time around, but the ISO didn't work at all both times I wrote them   
   to USB. The previous ISO worked fine, but the latest one didn't even   
   when using Balena Etcher. I took that as a preview of things to come and   
   just surrendered to Linux Mint until I found out that Pop_OS! was now   
   bundling Cosmic by default.   
      
      
   --   
   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
   Pop_OS!   
      
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