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That's what I hated as a beginner on debian/ubuntu as well. On fedora it's straight forward. Adding repo and then isntalling the app.
Lolwhat? It is the same in any distro: adding the repo and installing the app.
Yeah, the only odd thing is installing the signing key, but it’s there for a good reason.
That said, it’s not a great user experience, especially if you start stacking a lot of ppa’s.
It's not like that on NixOS
There's no adding repos, you just put
mullvad-vpnin your system packages listIt's the same on Debian, so I'm not sure what you mean?
Yeah, how Ubuntu is supposed to be noob friendly and continues to be recommended blows my mind. Seems like every stupid app you want to install needs you to add a ppa that is almost guaranteed to break on the next major update. And ugh snaps ...
Believe or not many people who know little Linux world always believe Ubuntu is the de-facto Linux itself.