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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux? (feddit.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I'm doing here. Can't I just download a file and install it? I'm on Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's an asinine practice from which windows is moving away through winget, and which made the open source community to write a package manager for mac from scratch -- homebrew.

And if you think about it for a second, you will realize that it doesn't exist on Android and iOS at all. E.g. 99% of users only install from a centralized repository called "appstore" and nobody is ever downloading an executable installer.

Basically, you're uninformed, and blatantly defending your uneducated way of installing software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Homebrew is extremely insecure. It doesn't verify package signatures, so its just as bad as the "just donloaf some sketchy untrusted binary off a website" approach