A sample journey when trying to install software:

  • Try your distros repos, it’s either not there or an older version
  • Oh wait, you need to add their repo to your list and try again
  • Actually, they don’t have a repo, but you can install this deb/rpm from their site
  • Nevermind, it actually needs to be installed with pip to get the latest version
  • Or wait, it was actually a rust package and needs cargo
  • Well, this package is available as a snap
  • Screw it, I’ll just build it from source…. Except the dependencies I need take me through the entire journey again

It’s crazy with a large package like mesa. It uses meson, which requires it be installed via pip, and also needs rust which is best installed via a snap, but then there are dependencies it needs that require multiple paths…

On Windows: find the msi or exe and be done with it.

  • Encephalotrocity@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    No joke. My distro hop history was:

    • Mint , but it’s older so… (TBF I could have avoided a lot of grief and just stayed here),
    • Installed Bazzite , nice but my vidcard is so old it’ll be unsupported next release,
    • Tried to install Ubuntu but the installer crashed every time,
    • Debian installed but holy wtf is wrong with the package management. JFC. (it is really bad, skip if you aren’t intimately familiar with Linux),
    • Noped out of that to Fedora where it’s been amazing except for the complete assholes in the support Discord.
    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Curious what it is about Debian package management you found wrong, except for not having the newest stuff?
      I run Fedora on my gaming station because I needed a newer kernel than Debian Stable has by default but on my other machines Debian has been working well.