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    [–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Those are just tutorials showing how to install something. Typing flatpak install firefox is one and the same as going into the app store, searching for Firefox and clicking "install". Tutorial websites would just show terminal as it's more universal.
    If they ask you to actually download some file there is something very wrong.

    I often see people overwhelmed by universality of some things. Instead of searching "How to install Firefox on Linux?" what should be learned is "How to install software on Linux?" and, unless met with something badly ported, never do the search again.

    But what my meme is about is Windows-only style of having some file and by default having no idea if that's going to run in some program or be a program.

    [–] ego@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    While I totally agree with you about package managers, I still run into a lot of apps that the only install option is a .deb downloaded from a webpage. Which is comparable to running a .exe on windows.

    [–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 10 months ago

    is a .deb downloaded from a webpage

    deb-get is useful for these.

    I hate directly installing Debian packages because I forget to update them (since apt won't update them). I usually either use deb-get or create my own repo for the app using Aptly.