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  • gera@feddit.nutolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux tips
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    15 days ago

    Well I can see a newcomer finding a program they want to run on github and there are instructions for compiling the program for e.g. Ubuntu which if they were Fedora user they would be able to adapt to themselves without much trouble. But since they are using a distro that decided that installing packages globally is bad for some reason they are very much on their own. Sure I think it’s possible and there are methods documented somewhere (and maybe it’s even better practice than installing dependencies from package manager), but it seems unlikely that anyone in the program’s community can help unless they have experience with immutable distros.

    I just wonder what are the benefits for which people are chosing distros that so deviate from what most other Linux users use.


  • gera@feddit.nutolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux tips
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    15 days ago

    I don’t really want to be the tiger but what do you do on immutable distros when you want to e.g. compile a C program from source (say, an SDL game). I always thought being able to easily install popular libraries from package manager a huge advantage of Linux over windows and mac.