{"id":285610,"date":"2026-07-04T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T11:10:24","slug":"why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I stopped installing apps the traditional Linux way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/\">Why I stopped installing apps the traditional Linux way<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-04 06:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Installing programs on  Linux is a fairly simple process. Using a package manager and an installation command ( sudo apt install [program name] for example) in your terminal installs an application, assuming it&#8217;s available in your distro&#8217;s repositories. As I grew more experienced with the operating system, I stopped installing Linux apps the traditional way, largely because the other options offer more control, variety, and customization.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why and what I do instead.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tHow to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Turns out, Chromebooks are more capable than I thought.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"i-still-love-package-managers\">\n                        I still love package managers<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"but-i-wanted-some-apps-that-weren-39-t-available-in-mine\">\n            But I wanted some apps that weren&#8217;t available in mine<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                                                                                                     &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I stopped installing apps the traditional Linux way https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/why-i-stopped-installing-apps-the-traditional-linux-way\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-04 06:31:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/12\/a-laptop-screen-featuring-linux-apps-listed-on-the-linux-mint-software-browser.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-285610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285612,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285610\/revisions\/285612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}