And Gentoo as well, but shush

What software only works on Arch? If anything I see stuff that’s packaged for arch but can be installed from source on other distros without issue.

Ubuntu-only software, on the other hand, is infuriating

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.

Configure and make are your best friends.

Just don't worry about timely updates.

Distrobox is your friend. Me, I like an immutable OS (kinoite) but I still want the AUR...

distrobox-create --name arch --image archlinux:latest
distrobox enter arch
install yay as normal
yay -S vscodium
distrobox-export --app vscodium
yay exa
distrobox-export --bin /usr/sbin/exa
exit [back to kinoite]
exa [works]
vscodium [works, has icon in application launcher]

Try it, you might like it !

./configure

make

sudo make install

You Linux people are funny.

I just download the Windows versions and run them with Wine.

finds complete updated AUR package

am running Fedora

Proceeds to unpack AUR and reverse engineer what it does so you can get what you need

True story for some stupid ethernet driver patch: alx-wol-dkms

AUR stronk

This is what always leads me back to arch. I can follow an outdated 12-step guide to installing the software in Debian or I can install it with one command from AUR.

./configure && make && sudo make install

Get off my lawn.

I'm a noob, isn't every (open source) program aviable for every distribution if you compile it from source? It's all Linux in the end (i never compiled a program from source, so I don't know if it's easy at all)

Funny meme. NixOS has more packages than the AUR

distrobox for most cases should be fine...

fr though why is the AUR specific to Arch when its pretty much an automated build/binary blob installer? I dont know much but it really seems like the AUR could easily be made available on other distros and renamed to LUR.

I use arch btw

Can't you just use it though distrobox and podman?

This is not a problem, I use garuda btw.

...or nixpkgs they have the most packages of any distro (although, I don't know if they also count all the language specific libs like from pypi, npm, crates, etc.)

Just do whatever the package file says.

Same. Yesterday, I found Vulkan drivers for virtual machines (vulkan-virtio) , but it's packaged only for archlinux. And I gave up trying to build from source yesterday.

or only as appimage

Skill issue (I use arch btw), all jokes aside maybe try distrobox it should work perfectly

simply destroy arch

Is it open-source or closed-source?

TBF I found the first party packaging tools for Debian are very hard to use. I always end up using nFPM or makedeb anyway

lxc-make.sh arch -d arch

Make yourself a quickie container and install it there, my base config has x11 forwarded with opengl.