• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Websites offer that but you can usually find those in your favorite package manager Downloading software from shady websites is the Windows way of doing things.

    Now, to be clear: this discussion is about having to use the terminal and that’s what people answered. You still find so many resources referring to the terminal because it’s often just the most convenient and effective way to do something.

    I certainly prefer it over clicking through settings or running dedicated tools to do something that could be solved by a single line. And I was an exclusive Windows user like 5 years ago.

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      6 months ago

      Websites offer that but you can usually find those in your favorite package manager

      Most of the time the only thing you’ll find in package managers for mainstream software is unofficial, and many times broken.

      Downloading software from shady websites is the Windows way of doing things.

      Then…don’t do that? Go to the official source of the software? It’s not like Google or Apple repositories aren’t regularly packed with malware pretending to be something they’re not…