Ubuntu installers?

[Owen Thomas]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 09:07, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 22:55, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I I became jaded and wary of installing software on Ubuntu a long time
> ago because there appeared to be many competing "package manager" formats
>
> There are 2. That is not too bewildering.
>

Ooph... If that were true, then that's one more than there needs to be by
my estimate, and that's bewildering.

Still: snap, rpm, deb, yum, etc... This is not encouragement. Once software
is installed, one appears to have to recall the package manager that was
used if one wants to uninstall it later. That thought induces nausea too.

And what type of beast is the Ubuntu Software Centre? Why does searching
through it regularly appear never to end? Can't something be done about
this?

This is called a winge. Perhaps airing my winges will be a productive
exercise for if I don't, then how do I know these winges have been aired?


> I replaced all my Snaps and Flatpaks with natively-packaged apps using
> deb-get. It worked 100% fine, was smaller, faster to update, so I
> totally removed both Snap and Flatpak with no ill effects at all.
>

I value your ability to wade through the tedium so I don't have to. You
have my blessing and are doing a good job; please continue.
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