Software management
Can you flesh them out easily?
Emmabuntüs offers to install non-free software such as
Adobe Flash Player for Firefox, multimedia codecs, Teamviwer, and Callibri and Ariel Microsoft fonts. Unmark the Show This Window At Next Startup checkbox on the bottom left of the window if you don’t want to run into it at each reboot.
Feren OS ships with Store, a graphical software management application. Apart from a quick rundown on features, it also displays screenshots, ratings, and user-contributed reviews for many applications. You also have the option of using the traditional Synaptic Package Manager. Although not available out of the box, you can also install Flatpak and Snap package support with a single click from the welcome screen. You can install other browsers such as Firefox using the Web Browser Manager tool. Many browsers however, such as Google Chrome, Opera and
Brave are not available for 32-bit installations. For fans of gaming, the Recommendations section of the welcome screen provides the option to install Steam, Lutris, Playonlinux & Wine with a single click. You can similarly install WPS Office, or Softmaker
Office if the default Libreoffice doesn’t suit your fancy.
The Software Centre tool on Q4OS is oddly misnamed, since it can only be used to install a handful of applications. For all other purposes, you must use Synaptic Package Manager.
Sparky Linux’s APTUS utility is a graphical app installer. It provides access to all the apps in the Sparky repository across categories such as Audio, Web, IM, etc.
Unlike the other distributions, Void Linux has created a package management system from scratch called X Binary
Package System (xbps). To install packages you must use the xbps-install utility. xbps-remove can similarly be used to remove packages, and xbps-query to look up applications in the repository. The man page for each has instructions on how to use them. If you wish to install non-free packages, you’ll have to enable the appropriate repository with the xps-install voidrepo-nonfree command.