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    Open terminal

    See whether the app is in my distro’s repos, flathub, or snapcraft (It’s not)

    Go on the internet, search up the app’s name

    Download the AppImage (might be a virus)

    LibFuse2 is not installed (fuck me)

    Install LibFuse2

    Install Gearlever to integrate AppImage into my desktop

    I can finally launch the app

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        Ah yes, downloading builds from unvetted third parties and running their installers as root. Truly the Linux way.

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            People can also use the Nix package manager on any distro, and run their apps using nix-shell, so that they don’t need to install as root.

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          and this is different to windows how …?

          u do realize that u can (and should) read the PGKBUILD file? and check the git url which it’s cloning. or check the sha if its a binary package.

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      Even if that’s needed, you can update apps w/o reboot usually (when sandboxed), and move opened files around (seriously wtf, Windows)…

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        When the hell would I need to update my Windows because of an app update? I only restart when there is a system update, which you have to do on Linux too if you want your kernel to stay up to date.

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          Well, it was what happened the last time I touched Windows in ‘22 (for work) – maybe a policy thing that a corporate app had elevated access and that’s why it forced a reboot on me for (some of the) “regular” app updates?

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              Good to challenge misconceptions regularly, so thank you! :D

              On that topic… I assume not being able to move opened files (my “go-to” use case was a PDF in Acrobat) is still unfixed though, right? Seems like that’d require a major OS and applications change to be made possible.

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                That I can confirm. Windows won’t let me move files if any app is using them. I sometimes do it by accident when I’m editin an office document, realize it’s in the wrong folder so I try to drag it to Documents. That won’t work. But I got used to it pretty quickly.

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                Why would you want to mv, not cp, a file that is actively opened by a file system. Is that even possible on Linux? I could swear I’m regularly blocked from manipulating things with open file descriptors.