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    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    There are many things that can stop me from running a program but what distro I'm using is not one of them.

    Become distro-agnostic. Don't be afraid of source code.

    [–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seriously, look at what the pkgbuild is doing on Arch and replicate it by hand on your distro of choice. That's all a pkgbuild is: a simple bash installation script.

    [–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I like your funny words, computer man. 👉😀👉

    I use KDE Neon, btw.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

    based distro kde #1

    [–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

    have fun translating all the package names!

    [–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    True but dependency hell and maintaining updates for that is a headache I wish not to deal with.

    [–] sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    AppImage and Docker has resolved a lot of that for me if its not in my distros package manager. It's my goto for the same reason of just not wanting to deal with it.

    [–] someacnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    How do you use appimage for binaries built from source?

    Premade AppImage or self-contained binary, I'll usually drop it into ~/.local/bin.

    Something I have to compile, I'll usually do in a dockerfile tracked in my dotfiles repo.

    Only thing I've compiled from source on my host in the last year is https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice.

    Could just be my use cases now compared to 10 years ago, but I've just found I'm rarely compiling these days on the host system. At least the configure-make-install or ninja variety. I'm sure I install a package here or there that does it in the background. Numpy comes to mind or an AUR package with Arch.