Poll of the Day > I always get thrown off installing stuff on Linux

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You just type in a command and it knows where to get it and install it to, it's like magic to me as a mostly-Windows-user

i just run the exe and everything installs where it should

what are you doing in windows that you'd have to manually put the files in places
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I mean on Windows you gotta go to a website and download it then you gotta run the exe or msi that it downloads and then you gotta click through a bunch of windows to select where you want to install

My only problem is when I need to add repositories or various required packages and can't find the direct address for them

Other than that I prefer it over windows for everything besides games and music production

Chewster posted...

I mean on Windows

Chewster posted...

you gotta click through a bunch of windows

Chewster posted...

select

Chewster posted...

windows

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Chewster posted...

I mean on Windows you gotta go to a website and download it then you gotta run the exe or msi that it downloads and then you gotta click through a bunch of windows to select where you want to install

Oh christ the horror!

Big deal.
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I find Windows to be much better for installing programs and more importantly finding the programs you want. Linux is fun though.
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it's kind of nice until the package you want is on a repo that you don't have in your repo list

microsoft made nuget, which is the same idea, but for third party programming libraries, not programs
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wwinterj25 posted...

I find Windows to be much better for installing programs and more importantly finding the programs you want. Linux is fun though.

Yeah I'm not necessarily saying Linux is better, just that it feels like some kind of wizardry. It's kind of neat sometimes to just type in one line (when it works), but I like to be able see what's going on and Windows makes that clearer

It is kind of weird to say "Hey, I want Firefox"

apt-get install firefox

All of a sudden firefox is magically on my machine. Or "Hey, I want a database on my machine"

apt-get install mysql

As opposed to spending 30 minutes trying to configure it in Windows.
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hey i want firefox

hey it installs an old version i want new version

10 minutes of googling in old firefox

ok sudo apt-get install snap

sudo snap install firefox

firefox

damn it's still opening the old firefox

2 minutes of googling later

ok ln -s /snap/firefox/current/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

oh yeah right

mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox.bak

ln -s /snap/firefox/current/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

it just works
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Okay, sometimes it just works

too many exploits for windows. I avoid using it whenever possible. But this is a game forums so yes I do have a windows partition, but that's it. If you got the extra $ and you like linux but can't deal with the headache to configure and install stuff, then just go mac. Otherwise, learn a bit about your machine and linux is really no big deal. I mean, there's youtubes out there just like theres youtubes on how to fix your car's transmission

lol but it can definitely be a tricky OS for people who have no idea how to use computers.
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jramirez23 posted...

lol but it can definitely be a tricky OS for people who have no idea how to use computers.

It's like that saying, "Linux is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are."
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Linux wants to be taken seriously, but it also wants to force users to install things with the command prompt.

It's sad, Linux could easily make Windows irrelevant. Windows is like an Authoritarian roach that needs to die along with Facebook Twitter and YouTube.
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Yellow posted...

Linux wants to be taken seriously, but it also wants to force users to install things with the command prompt.

That seems like kind of a backwards way of looking at it. I couldn't take a distro seriously if it tried to have a GUI app for every administrative task. Because that's when things tend to go wrong and you're left with your thumb in your ass wondering what to do now. If you're familiar with the command line then you're more likely to understand how to diagnose and fix problems. Anyway don't most mainstream distros have graphical package managers?
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kind9 posted...

Yellow posted...

Linux wants to be taken seriously, but it also wants to force users to install things with the command prompt.

That seems like kind of a backwards way of looking at it. I couldn't take a distro seriously if it tried to have a GUI app for every administrative task. Because that's when things tend to go wrong and you're left with your thumb in your ass wondering what to do now. If you're familiar with the command line then you're more likely to understand how to diagnose and fix problems. Anyway don't most mainstream distros have graphical package managers?

Pretty much, Most distros you can just do everything through a GUI. It just takes a lot longer then using the command line because everything takes longer through a GUI.
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