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One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.
I installed liri-shell, and some other apps some time back, and totally disliked the experience. Too many duplicated stuff, which was totally unnecessary. While I can, I void universal packagers.
I’m not complaining about open source, I’ve been using FLOSS for so many years now. The thing with developers only supporting universal packages distributed binaries is that the build recipes might be too tight to them, or not explicitly exposing all dependencies, and several other things. I have no issues building and installing software. So that’s not it. All I said was that to me closing bugs because not using the universal package supported is sort of crazy, being open source and supposedly being able to build and distribute. I didn’t say I couldn’t support myself.