• Nefyedardu@kbin.social
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    I don’t know why it’s become a stigma that installing things on Linux is hard when Windows requires you to Google sketchy .exes and .msis because their app store is so trash. For 99% of packages on Linux you can just open the software manager and click install.

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      Because Windows doesn’t require you to google sketchy .exes and .msis…

      Unless you just consider them inherently sketchy, but can’t really do anything about that. Hell the backlash for the store was mainly because people wanted to keep using .exes’s.

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        Because their app store sucks!

        Install drivers per app store? Negative.

        Install vlc per app store? Get a half assed “mobile” Version that lacks most Features.

        But candy crush is already installed. Great!

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          Remember that you can’t mod the games you get through the windows store either. (unless they changed that recently?)

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            They did not. In fact, Windows ships in S mode now, which means you can’t install ANYTHING outside of the appstore. Not even Office downloaded directly from Office(dot)com. You can turn S mode off, for now, but you need to (and I’m not shittin you) install an app from the appstore that disables S mode. But not without confirming that you’re serious several times, and read through fear mongering with a “you get viruses if you install outside the appstore” scare tactic.

            Edit: killed the auto-URL

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      I’m gonna get hate, but I much prefer the independent distribution of exe files over package managers. I’ve still yet to have a good experience with a package manager. Almost all end up with outdated versions of software. My discord broke for a full day because the central arch repo hadn’t updated yet.

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        This is actually true and it’s a big reason I prefer FreeBSD for a lot of things (if I don’t need containerization).

        Distros always ship totally old software and slam the filesystem with trash everywhere.

        FreeBSD on the other hand lets you easily compile the exact features you want and usually pretty recent versions. I had lots of luck while doing crazy stuff with nginx.

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        If you look up Discord on the Arch wiki, you will find instructions to prevent this. In other words, RTFM! (/s, I also had to be directed there by some redditor while ago)

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          I find that if I have to RTFM for my daily computer I’m always going to hate using it. I don’t like having to tinker with my operating system. It’s not fun, it just makes me hate Linux. There’s a reason I switched back to windows after a week. Nothing works and I’m not willing to waste hours of my time trying to fix it.