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Re:My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age by foob on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:10PM (#30665231)
If you use an Arch-based distro, it's available in the Arch User Repository (AUR) [1]. With Aura [2], installation is as simple as:

    aura -A radarr
Yes, you need to use the CLI to run that, but it's trivial to do so and a real package management system brings many advantages over exe installers. The AUR, inspired by BSD's Ports, is one of the major advantages of Arch. It's very rare to find a package that isn't supported.

[1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radarr

[2] - https://github.com/fosskers/aura

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Re:My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age by jeroenhd on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:19PM (#30665312)
Manjaro comes with a GUI for Pacman and after enabling AUR (and clicking the "yes I know this will probably break my machine" button) it simply shows up in the list of installable software.

That said, Radarr, being written in dotnet, should be able to package a single executable you can just click, and that process should be even easier with the upcoming dotnet release.

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