Most of the time, the package is available on the standard package manager which makes the process extremely simple. Hardest part is knowing the package name. If you know apt search
, you don’t even have to search on the browser to find the package name. But certain packages are only available as tar.gz or as source. But those are usually not encountered by newbies.
If someone is using Nix, they generally don’t have trouble finding packages. Also, Nix has more packages compared to AUR.
70% is just rookie numbers