Flatpak

RHEL-based distributions have dnf, which is equally as simple:sudo dnf install firefox -y I can also visit either the Snapcraft store or Flathub and find all kinds of necessary software available that I might not otherwise have access to. So, not only do both Snap and Flatpak make installing software much easier on Linux, but they also open the floodgates to software that would otherwise be either challenging or impossible to install on Linux. To make this even more appealing, some distributions roll Snap and/or…

Opening the Konsole app from the KDE Plasma menu. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET In the terminal window, paste the following command and hit Enter on your keyboard: You'll be prompted for your user password. Once you've successfully typed that password, the installation will start and finish in just a few seconds. When that completes, close the terminal window. Opening the Konsole app from the KDE Plasma menu. Screenshot by Jack Wallen/ZDNET In the terminal window, paste the following command…

For the longest time, Linux received a bad rap for not just being difficult to use, but for not having the software necessary to be productive. I remember, back in the early days of using Linux (I started in '97), those issues were very much true. Not only was Linux complicated to get up and running, but installing software generally required a nightmare of dependency installations and manually compiling software. Those days are long since gone. Now, Linux is incredibly easy to use and offers hundreds of thousands of…