Le mercredi 28 décembre 2022 à 09:05 -0600, Kent West a écrit : [...] > I found "Synaptic", which seems to be what I thought "Software" was > going to be. Perhaps "Synaptic" is Debian-specific, whereas > "Software" is Cinnamon-specific. Maybe? [...]
I would say that Synaptic or Gnome-packagekit are GUI package managers that, on debian and its derivatives use the apt libraries, but are indeed not dependant of a particular underlying package management ecosystem. Synaptic is not part of a DE, Gnome-software is part ot the Gnome project. In my mind you employ such tools when you think of packets (not apps) and how to manage them whith a GUI.
Conversely you could think of Software (Gnome-software in fact, and I think there is an equivalent in the KDE desktop), not as a GUI package manager for administrators, but as an application center or application store, for privileged end-users who barely, if at all, know what a package is. It's more a scenario a la Android/Ios/Windows/MacOS app store. It's troubling for experienced linux users used to install packets but much more user friendly for a non-technician user who searches for an application name or description, browse the results, read the descriptions, watch the screenshots and install the chosen app.
