I want a Computer that I Own

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[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

In linux you almost always have to open a terminal, the installs are a list of terminal commands and instructions you have to copy-paste one by one, instead of a simple download link.

You are not supposed to do it like this. You open the graphical package management tool, select the program(s) you want and let the OS install them for you. In most cases, the desired program is already packaged by the OS maintainers.

You can do it using the command line as well, but again it's a simple procedure and basically the same thing.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yes but there's lots of things not in that GUI manager because they run on linux, but not on that specific package, so they're not in the list, so they have to be downloaded via terminal.

[–]asterias 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Distros like Solus that are not that old may have a smaller selection of packages, but mature ones like SUSE have a really big selection of packages and it's not that easy to find something not included there.

There are some notable exceptions, like Brave which is not yet available in most official repositories, so you have to add the Brave repository to the existing ones.

Some times you have to do it this way, but generally it's not a good idea, even security-wise, to stray away from the official repositories.