• uzay@infosec.pub
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    1 year ago

    All I want to do is download a program and click on it to install. How fucking hard is that. I am not a programmer and have zero desire to be one.

    For most modern Linux distributions that’s exactly how it works. You have an app store, you look for the program, click install, then click launch.

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      1 year ago

      Unless the program you need is not in the store, which, for some reason is still normal for the programs I want to use. Then it’s back to the stupid tar.bz bullshit and typing in random shit I found on the internet into the command line hoping it works.

      Every 2-3 years, I get fed up with the bullshit Windows is doing and test out a few distros in a vain hope it’s finally usable. Then for some random thing I have to hit the command line and inevitable failure to accomplish what I want to do. So I unistall the OS and wait a few more years.

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        1 year ago

        With flatpaks becoming more and more common, that issue doesn’t crop up too often anymore. Mainly for niche software or things that need to burrow deep into the system, like VPNs. That’s usually not more than copy&paste from the developer’s website either though.

        But if you don’t like that, you gotta pick your poison.