• AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve been using Linux for over thirty years and the nice looking App Stores that have appeared those last few years have always been shit and have always been mostly broken in various ways. I don’t know why.

    On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

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      23 hours ago

      On the other hand, the ugly frontends to the package manager just work.

      The misery I have trying to get a newer(or sometimes older) version of a package I want is sometimes immeasurable. Yet somehow usually the right version is extremely accessible on choco.

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      2 days ago

      In this case it was installing them from flathub anyway. The applications were being installed, but the only way to launch them was through the CLI using flatpak run then the app ID. Every article I came across said to run that, then right click the app after it was open and pin it to the taskbar or whatever, but that option was greyed out.