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How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?
If it's C or C++, I get the source from the project's GitHub / GitLab / Source Hosting thing and compile it for myself.
For programming languages that I don't read, I usually use the AUR.
Also,
God that's painfully me.
Except I moved to lxc and zfs with homebrew scripts for most now, pass containers around the network like candy, including an arch lutris one.
Build from source
LFS Ftw!
I have a few source built packages that I use every day.
Loading up my system with several development libraries to compile a program is preferable to taking a giant dump on my system in the form of soypacks.
If I could, I'd compile all my software from source. Unfortunately, it seems a lot of open source developers don't like writing software in C, which means the burden of sorting through dependancy-hell has been deferred to my shoulders instead.
Native binaries