On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 07:40:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/16/23 18:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now, granted, this is just my personal stance. I may be atypical. > > That said, what exactly does a GUI package manager offer you, that > > you can't get from "apt install thing-i-want"? > > > > . > Like looking at the menu in a fancy restaurant, if you don't have a menu to > read, how that heck are you supposed to know what you want?
I agree that discovering the *package name* of the thing-u-want is often the hard part. I'm not sure how much easier it is to learn the package name with a GUI application vs. "apt search" or similar commands. In lots of cases, there are just a slew of false positive results (libraries/modules to interface with the thing-u-want in some obscure language, etc.), but I don't think sifting through those is any easier in a GUI than in a terminal. Maybe I'm wrong about that. In any case, for people who've been using Debian as long as we have, one would think we have a pretty good idea which packages we want, when we're installing a new system.
