Linux Software Installation, Part III: Needs & Wants
The typical Linux way of providing binaries faces huge problems: First of all, “trying new things” means installing new software just released in a new milestone release or just released first time at all. Repositories need quite some time to react to such changes due to rules about new release or due to the time the package maintainer needs to get familiar with the new release. Therefore in such a case the user is lost with Linux.
This leads sometimes to absurd behaviours, where for example a FLOSS fan keeps a Windows partition around to be able to quickly test new software releases.
It is even worse for the second type of needs: niche software.
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