• Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve come across a package that I needed that so obscure that it wasn’t found somewhere as at the very least an appimage, if not a flatpak. I haven’t had to build from source in I don’t even know how many years now.

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      12 days ago

      Try making music on Linux. You’ll be compiling obscure shit and tweaking configs all the time.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        12 days ago

        True. But I was coming at if from the perspective of an every day user coming from Windows. email, word processing, internet, etc… Even gaming and photo editing.

        The more professional the needed software gets, of course the more obscure it gets.