Well the solution here is to just use the superior distro, naturally.

This post will surely upset nobody.

I don't care I use Arch BTW. Someone would have made a AUR package for it by now.

As someone who's used debian based distros for 20+ years now, I see no issue with this. ;)

Even worse: the .deb file's dependences are only available in a specific version of Ubuntu LTS or with PPAs.

That's where the AUR comes in. Some neckbeard somewhere has already made an AUR package of that.

Nothing Distrobox can't fix. I can run AUR, RPM, and even those deb files that only run on Ubuntu for some damn reason on my Debiain system.

It's probably already in your default repos too.

Give it 2 days and chances are someone has already published a PKGBUILD in the AUR

Ain’t my fault you forgot about dpkg -i ;-)

This is why you use glorious Debian.

Thankfully RHEL/Centos/Fedora also get attention thanks to the large corporate influence.

Anything else can just be compiled from scratch, after spending 6 hours trying to figure out what ajfiwn-0-libs-dev is in redhat land, only to find out it was libfiwn-devel all along.

stick it into a distrobox container and then package that into a flatpak on the AUR. 😎👍

Only n00bs install packages. Cool people compile from source.

I don't know what the Linux community's consensus on appimages are, but I wouldn't mind if people made more appimages because, for the few distros I've used, appimages just usually work.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/

It's only been around like forever.

Debtap is suprisingly easy to use after switching to arch (highly recommend), but i actually love .deb files. Obviously it's a slight risk to the user in the similar way dot EXE's can be for windows , but they really do simplify package management for when you're newer to linux.

BlendOS Will let you install virtually any package format through containerization, but it shows up just as if it was a native app. It's pretty neat to see and I hope more distros adopt this

Someone explain this to my dumb ass.

We don't have this kind of weakness on Arch. Apes together strong. Porting magic language to our world.