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[–]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.