What software only works on Arch? If anything I see stuff that’s packaged for arch but can be installed from source on other distros without issue.
Ubuntu-only software, on the other hand, is infuriating
There’s a lot of content packaged for the AUR that isn’t readily available to people using less enlightened distributions.
I use Arch BTW.
Seriousposting: a lot of software just isn’t packaged as deb or rpm because no one has taken the time to do it. The AUR is really fucking convenient as an end user. And yes, you should always skim AUR packages to be sure they’re doing what they claim to do and aren’t garbage, anyone can post anything. I have seen a lot of trash uploaded to the AUR.
There are many things that can stop me from running a program but what distro I’m using is not one of them.
Become distro-agnostic. Don’t be afraid of source code.
Seriously, look at what the pkgbuild is doing on Arch and replicate it by hand on your distro of choice. That’s all a pkgbuild is: a simple bash installation script.
True but dependency hell and maintaining updates for that is a headache I wish not to deal with.
AppImage and Docker has resolved a lot of that for me if its not in my distros package manager. It’s my goto for the same reason of just not wanting to deal with it.
Configure and make are your best friends.
Just don’t worry about timely updates.
timely updates
You mean I shouldn’t git pull; git checkout HEAD; sudo make install every day?
./configure
make
sudo make install
