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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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[โ€“] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

this is probably an edge case but I do when i visit family and friends. these trips are short and infrequent enough that a laptop would be an unnecessary expense and i'm not driving through mountainous areas with my tower. none of them use linux. most have aged windows or mac machines. they don't care if i run a live system or puppy linux from a USB drive. i add a handful of appimages i'll use at night or if there's free time. I'm sure there are better ways but it works for me.

[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

If it works for you then it works, no need to switch it up. I guess one other way of doing it would be a persistent install on that USB.