• reddifuge@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    It does work like that in reality for almost all programs.

    For obscure stuff you can use yay or whatever other user repository you want.

    yay “program name”. Done

    I’ve been doing this for years without issue.

    Also you can list all your installed programs. On Arch it’s pacman -Q and yay -Qm.

    It’s so easy a baby could do it. And apparently arch is supposed to be the most difficult.

    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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      23 hours ago

      You’re forgetting, not every program in the world exists in your repository.

      When they do, great, but doesn’t always happen. Make mkv for one, you have to get the linux version off their site custom.

      Also it seems you may be one of those people driving people away from linux saying normies are idiots and need to rtfm. Maybe work on that.