In my experience installing most applications on Ubuntu 9.04 is certainly as easy as installing stuff XP or whatever, probably easier in fact because you can just select it in Synaptic and it will download and install whatever it needs, and add it to a menu. However if it isn't in Synaptic via a repository then you're looking at finding an Ubuntu or Debian package yourself and installing it from a shell with sudo dpkg or whatever. Which is fine and dandy for folks like us, but not mom & pop stuff. Then again, most of the things that aren't in Synaptic are out of mom & pop league anyway (dev tools and the like).
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