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[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 99 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let’s not cherrypick scenarios to try and pretend Linux is easier than Windows. Most normal people are nervous interacting with a GUI pop-up that gives them two options, never mind putting them into a terminal window where they could seriously fuck up their machine. What about clicking the download link on a webpage, clicking next a few times and having them software on your machine, compared to having to build something from GitHub (how many people here have never had to do that?).

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 55 points 1 week ago

This applies to pretty much all "Linux good, Win/MacOS bad" memes. I just assume that people either aren't really serious about them and it's just tongue in cheek, or they don't have any contact with regular people.

I used to work as a(n assistant to the) sysadmin and the things I got called over never stopped to amaze. For instance, there was a case when software was updated on the work machines and I got called because some lady couldn't use Adobe Acrobat. "It is asking me something, I don't know what". I come over and it's just a TOS Accept/Decline window.

Some people do not understand computers to an extent that they can lock up in a state of confusion when a button has been moved 100px in any direction from its usual position.

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 week ago

No restart require on Linux is a joke, right? Because I get updates that require restarts as often as I get them on Windows when updating Mint.

[-] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

This is a requirement for Immutable Distributions, not that Mint is... But others.

[-] Camille@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 week ago

Unless you're updating the kernel itself, there is little chance you actually need to reboot your machine. Just restarting whatever service or application you're using should do the trick.

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This was made by someone who has never used either

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[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 week ago

I haven't had a DLL issue in Windows in like 20 years.

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[-] tsugu@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Open terminal

See whether the app is in my distro's repos, flathub, or snapcraft (It's not)

Go on the internet, search up the app's name

Download the AppImage (might be a virus)

LibFuse2 is not installed (fuck me)

Install LibFuse2

Install Gearlever to integrate AppImage into my desktop

I can finally launch the app

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[-] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

somepackage requires otherpackage version >10.1.79

otherpackage is already at latest version

Have fun compiling it yourself and messing up what is managed by the package manager and what's not. And don't forget that the update might break some other package along the way

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

NixOS solved this. You can install both deps from two different channels.

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