@RommieDroid It’s not there by default, but Gdebi can do the trick. I used it quite a lot when I first started with Linux.

@RommieDroid No problem. Many of us are here to help in the #linux community, though I wouldn’t say I’m the most advanced with it.

@steam I’m glad you’re liking #ubuntu 🙂

It was the first #linux distribution I played with back around the mid 2000’s and I liked it back then too.

I’ve mostly played with Linux in VMs these days, but I got a Linux desktop a while back that runs #popos and I think I enjoy that more than Ubuntu.

@RommieDroid Most of them are based on Ubuntu, such as Mint and the stagnated Pop! OS.

I can’t say what they are all like, but Ubuntu and its family are all the ones adopting a software center/App store these days.

In the past, I remember using Synaptic for searching for software, which was just a GUI front end for APT.

I’ve been using Nala lately in my VMs though.

@MangoPenguin @RommieDroid It’s more so that the people working on “beginner friendly” Linux distros are pushing users towards Software Centers/App stores these days.

Those of us who are familiar with the old ways don’t really have much trouble, but there’s stuff that is a big pain, like #LibreOffice

Installing the latest version of that is easier to do in the terminal and can’t be done as conveniently as what you propose, though I wish it was that easy.

@Die4Ever While they claim to have existed for a while, I never really heard of them before, so it is tough to say.

I’ve only heard of Beelink, System76, Star Labs, Framework, and Tuxedo mentioned the most frequently.

@demerara @MangoPenguin @RommieDroid I just try to find the current way to uninstall the preloaded version and then run dpkg -i *.deb in the extracted directory for the latest, but I can kind of see how that can be possible.

@prole @HrMoon I don’t pay attention to RSS feeds much these days, but #Thunderbird and #clawsmail should both have RSS capabilities, so you can get your emails and your feeds in the same place.

Also, there are services that can just forward RSS updates to your email too.

@klangcola Good to know thanks. I only saw they were around since 2019, but, hardware wise, I never heard of them.