People online complain that Linux is hard to install for new users. But who are these people and why do they levy these complaints? The biggest barrier for the new Linux user isn't the installer; i...
My major version updates on 2 computers with linux mint in the past few years have been just one click, wait, reboot when prompted, everything works and you barely even notice that anything changed. Though maybe I’ve just been lucky
though the rest of the video’s takes on the linux experience for new users seems pretty accurate to me (lol downloading an application and using it requires at least a manual chmod +x and that’s the best case scenario. Maybe there’s a distro that has a solution but I have doubts (and “have everything you could possibly need in the package manager” is obviously a nonstarter))
But the community parts seem odd to me:
Is “just disable secure boot” a bad take? Has someone been holding everyone out on a better solution?
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The only way linux is going to change is when money and development power is given to major dekstop Linux projects. It’s time to stop wasting time on customization or packaging
is just… sure, herd all the cats into one place, make them all work together in harmony, and summon 500 million dollars out of thin air to wrap it all together. Instead of writing bash scripts everyone should be praying to gabe newell to save us lol
I think it’s a horrible idea in any case. Imagine if this had happened 20 years ago, and we were stuck with RPM as the only package manager.
Standards are good, but so is diversity. So is innovation. There isn’t a perfect package manager, or even agreement about whether rolling upgrades are better than fixed releases. We wouldn’t have immutable distros (which I’m not a fan of, but I’m glad someone is researching and experimenting with them).
It’s not “wasting time,” it’s a dynamic, evolutionary ecosystem.
My major version updates on 2 computers with linux mint in the past few years have been just one click, wait, reboot when prompted, everything works and you barely even notice that anything changed. Though maybe I’ve just been lucky
though the rest of the video’s takes on the linux experience for new users seems pretty accurate to me (lol downloading an application and using it requires at least a manual chmod +x and that’s the best case scenario. Maybe there’s a distro that has a solution but I have doubts (and “have everything you could possibly need in the package manager” is obviously a nonstarter))
But the community parts seem odd to me:
Is “just disable secure boot” a bad take? Has someone been holding everyone out on a better solution?
and
is just… sure, herd all the cats into one place, make them all work together in harmony, and summon 500 million dollars out of thin air to wrap it all together. Instead of writing bash scripts everyone should be praying to gabe newell to save us lol
I think it’s a horrible idea in any case. Imagine if this had happened 20 years ago, and we were stuck with RPM as the only package manager.
Standards are good, but so is diversity. So is innovation. There isn’t a perfect package manager, or even agreement about whether rolling upgrades are better than fixed releases. We wouldn’t have immutable distros (which I’m not a fan of, but I’m glad someone is researching and experimenting with them).
It’s not “wasting time,” it’s a dynamic, evolutionary ecosystem.