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Old 04-10-2012, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by AliOop View Post
A mini lesson on installing programs for Linux: Keep to programs made for your distro. Use only those in the repos for the distro you are using. Not only is it easy to install and delete programs but it's safer as well.
How so? Package repositories don't have everything and I'm not going to wait for someone to add it. For instance, I'm not going to stop using Opera because most repositories don't have it. On top of that, various distro's have "static repositories" that only receive bug fixes during the current release cycle.

This is where Arch is nice - the PKGBUILD system is excellent and having a rolling release means you're always up to date.
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