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• Endorkend@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Biggest issue I have with Linux is the inability to sanely use multiple hard drives

  What do you mean with that?

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  • MJBrune@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if I want to install an application installed by the official repos to another hard drive not the one mounted at /. How do I do that?

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    • telemachuszero@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The package managers and official repos for most distros would be better thought of as lego blocks to build an OS from - there's no concept of OS and applications separation, and I don't think explicitly splitting installation of an OS across multiple physical drives makes much sense.

      Application focused distribution methods with a clear separation from the OS like Flatpak or AppImage do support this.

      AppImage - drag the .appimage wherever you want it.
      Flatpak - supports system and per user installs (under home directory) by default. More can be added, but I'm not sure if any GUIs expose this so it likely fails your refusal of the command line for advanced features.

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      • MJBrune@beehaw.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The package managers and official repos for most distros would be better thought of as lego blocks to build an OS from - they have no concept of OS and application separation, and splitting installation of an OS across multiple physical drives doesn’t really make sense.

        The packages for Blender, steam, etc, and typical Userland apps are in these repos. The package managers are not the “Lego blocks” only. They are the utilities, user apps, and libraries you need. They are everything in one place. That’s a large point of Linux. Everything you need is in the repo.

        Also, repos are distro related. You can’t use Fedora repos on Ubuntu. Originally you couldn’t use any distro’s repos on any other distro’s repos. With Ubuntu and its offshoots and arch and its offshoots, we’ve started to see repos grow to multi-distro but to say that they have no concept of OS is wrong. The whole reason there are distros is so that specific distros can configure things to their liking. This is why things like Debian and Ubuntu exist. It’s why OpenBSD exists. Again, a large selling point for Linux users is that all your packages are configured to be used with your distro.

        Flatpak and Appimage are very specifically not what I am talking about. They aren’t typically supported by distros and don’t include distro-specific fixes/configurations for a lot of things.

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• averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Linux doing something for you? The audacity.

  (I hate it too. Some things I don’t need to do for my computer, it’s meant to do them for me.)

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