I know there are ways to install software outside of aptitude on debian/ubuntu, (add repo, or build, or download binary, or possibly flatpak/snap/etc).

But being able to download *.deb files was one of the nicest aspect of using a debian based distros and now I’m seeing more and more projects include all distros except deb files.

Someone correct me but I vaguely recall that distributing debs is no longer recommended by debian itself?

  1. Am I wrong, and have I only co-incidentally stumbled on projects that don’t distribute debs?
  2. I am right and this seems like a mis-step, removing one of the most beginner friendly features that helped propagate debian based distros?

Flamesuit on.

      • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
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        1 year ago

        I’ve only personally done it from Firefox based ones, but you can just copy the profile directory from one flatpak app into another, then checking permissions depending on if you’ve installed the flatpak as a user or system. Chrome based ones probably have a similar profile/config directory, but I’ve not used one in a while.

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      1 year ago

      Tried to move from Chrome and had to do all stuff manually. Probably it’s cause they isolated env :)