Package managers are cool right until the moment you need several versions of the same app or several instances of the same version of the same app. Or something is fatally outdated in the repos. I’ll stick to my standalone apps, thanks.
On the rare occasions that becomes necessary, I would install the additional versions through the package manager — I think that’s easy, at least it’s easy for different versions of programming language environments
I’d install additional copies of the same software as standalone or I’d run the additional copies in containers — but I can’t think of a use case for that that couldn’t be served by running the one copy multiple times
If that’s a common requirement for you than sure do whatever works for you, I’m more than convinced that Linux has solutions for this, from the top of my head appimages, flatpaks and pkgbuilds. I’m rolling arch without a worry and it’s smooth sailing.
Package managers are cool right until the moment you need several versions of the same app or several instances of the same version of the same app. Or something is fatally outdated in the repos. I’ll stick to my standalone apps, thanks.
That’s gonna be janky on Windows too depending on the app.
Such apps are quite rare.
On the rare occasions that becomes necessary, I would install the additional versions through the package manager — I think that’s easy, at least it’s easy for different versions of programming language environments
I’d install additional copies of the same software as standalone or I’d run the additional copies in containers — but I can’t think of a use case for that that couldn’t be served by running the one copy multiple times
If that’s a common requirement for you than sure do whatever works for you, I’m more than convinced that Linux has solutions for this, from the top of my head appimages, flatpaks and pkgbuilds. I’m rolling arch without a worry and it’s smooth sailing.