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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by veddox on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:44PM (#25164729)
How often do you run into packaging problems? As in, you need some software but it‘s only available for Linux via the Ubuntu repos?
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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by anderspitman on Friday November 20, 2020 @04:18PM (#25165084)
Rarely. I think between the official repositories and the AUR, there's probably more useful, updated software than is available for Ubuntu.

Granted, I probably use less programs than most people, and I'm the type of person who would rather download the nodejs tarball and update my PATH than use the system package or nvm.

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Re:Moving from Macbook to Linux by johnmaguire2013 on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:13PM (#25165710)
I more often run into this issue on Debian-based distros than on Arch, due to the Arch User Repository (AUR).
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