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Originally Posted by Katsunami
In Linux everything takes a long time or might actually be impossible if you're outside the official repositories.IMHO, that's THE big stickler for many people used to Windows, where you can (often) easily have an OS from 2001, running 2013 software, or a 2013 OS running software from 1995. That's a fair bit more difficult under Linux. That's also another topic, however.
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And that is why many programs are distributed as self-contained binaries from the project homepage. It is the equivalent of a Windows program, with all dependencies bundled so that it works everywhere.
Of course, if you can get it from the repo that is better. Because then you can use system dependencies and it all works.