• underscores@lemmy.zip
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      Me pretty much only ever using arch Linux: “what the fuck is a flatpak”

      I once had to install Firefox into wsl (Ubuntu) and I wanted the kms on the spot.

      But maybe it’s not that bad for newer people to get started with Linux.

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            Which ones? Everything in the arch main repos are compiled for your system, and most things in the AUR can either be built from source, or have -bin installs.

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              aleph one from the AUR refused to run properly, often crashing on startup so i just grabbed the flatpak
              the weirdest one was ghostwriter from the official repos, for some reason one day the preview window showed heavily corrupted output and tinkering with it on and off for a week did nothing, including a complete purge and reinstall of the program
              the flatpak was the only version of it that worked after that

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          Mostly because of detailed and easy permissions, and also because I have other distibutions on my other computers and want my programs to be consistent everywhere - same programs, same version.