Not sure why I tried to do that. I knew when I did it that it wouldn’t work and I was kicking my self for being stupid when the prompt showed up asking me to confirm that I wanted to download to that location. My jaw hit the metaphorical floor!
Now I’m wondering what other neat tricks I’ve missed over the years!
To be clear this is in Firefox on NixOS with the KDE6 desktop environment. No clue if it works on other browsers, DEs, or OSs.
I have found that: it’s easier if you stick to one (major) distro such as Debian or its derivatives, and try to stick to that distro’s package system (in this case, apt). Yes there is a learning curve. But once you learn it, you find that Linux gets easier to use. But more importantly, it gets more POWERFUL to use. I agree with your assessment that Linux is not beginner friendly but it is USER friendly in that it empowers the user. But yes you do have to put in a little work first.
I like apt, but I what I love about GUI package managers like Discover is that I can browse software, read descriptions, and even view some screenshots before deciding if I want to install something.
Perhaps my use case isn’t typical, but I love just browsing, and I haven’t seen many package managers that allow that (with screenshots, at least).
So, use an apt frontend that does that. I prefer to use apt search and apt show to find packages and then follow links if I want to read more. I was happy when I could remove aptitude, synaptic, deselect and whatever and just install what I wanted and only what I wanted instead. Also debfoster.
Also, https://packages.debian.org/
Not sure what your problem with Discover is. It uses PackageKit under the hood, which hooks into APT (as well as other distros’ package management).
If you want to, you can disable Flatpak and Snap support in Discover’s settings and then it is effectively just an APT frontend.
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