Comments on Linux Software you won't find on your Software Center: Install Google Chrome, Google Earth and Skype

Arch Linux has all of these and many more available in its Arch User Repository. They're automatically downloaded, compiled (if necessary), configured (usually with sane defaults), and kept up-to-date after installation. The statement "there are still some popular tools that millions of people use that you won't find in application centers of any distro" is thus shown to be untrue ;-)

You may find them in some repositories, but you wouldn't if these distros respected the licenses. Google Earth license doesn't allow redistribution like this.

PCLinuxOS has all three of these and many more their repositories too!  Updates to these apps roll out almost as soon as they are issed by app dev team.  

Gentoo also has all three.

No.

OR, try not installing trojans on your system.

Do NOT install Google Chrome. Google Earth and Skype.

Install Chromium, Marble, and Jitsi, which ARE available in most distributions' repositories.

Duh, Ubuntu and all its devirates has Skype in its repositories. The Google stuff may be downoaded in .deb format from Google, which will automatically add entries to /etc/apt/sources.list to keep the packages up to date.

Bombastic much? I used Linux as my desktop (for really desktop use) for over a dozen of years and never had any of those installed.BTW, you may want to check your rpm installing instructions, I'm pretty sure arp does not install packages. Maybe use rpm instead...

In order to install Skype on 64 bit Debian, it takes a little extra:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

apt-get update

dpkg -i Skype.deb (whatever your Skype package you downloaded is)

apt-get install -f

try Archlinux,

and you will be like a "BOSS"