Re:And yet you do troll (Score 1)

Spot on.

Also worth noting: in Windows you will eventually probably find it necessary to clean up all the junk you've downloaded, and you also have to search through all the junk in the first place to find your download.

Its hard to see how using Synaptic is more difficult than the Windows approach...

In the long term the savings in the total number of steps required and time to complete a task such as this, can be quite significant.

Methinks this is a case where a little bit of effort (e.g. in setting up your download repositories if needs be) has a substantial payoff!