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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by adhesive_wombat on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:34PM (#36249485)
> the AUR is amazing

Every time I end up on the Ubuntu machine: "sudo apt install somet<tab><tab>" nothing. Urgh. Off I go to Google "install <package> Ubuntu" and visit some third party website for a .deb.

If I wanted to circumvent the packaging system by default, I'd use Windows.

Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by michaelcampbell on Thursday June 08, 2023 @07:49PM (#36251022)
Our realities must be very different; I have never had to side-load a .deb. I honestly didn't even consider that tab-completion on apt might be a thing; I usually search with grep for what I want, but I've never not had something be there.

I guess my needs are meager.

Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by Gordonjcp on Friday June 09, 2023 @05:06AM (#36255207)
Proper Binary Chrome (not Chromium), Minecraft, MS Edge, and I'm sure there was something else I needed to install recently where I needed to download a .deb and run "sudo dpkg -i <thing>"

Okay, I don't *need* to install Minecraft, but I like it.

Yes, Edge works just great on Linux, probably better than it does on Windows.

I am not a typical Linux user. I have been doing weird and unsupported shit with it since kernel 0.93 and I know what I'm getting into before I unscrew the lid.