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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)
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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

KDE Discover; search for app, install. You don't even have to download an exe because Discover just installs it for you. Has plugins to work with Flatpak and snap as well. So that's one step less. Since it's one step less, does that immediately make it better?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    Sure thing! If you’re using KDE. What about Mint? Gnome, cinnamon, etc. these are all things you have to explain to anyone new to the ecosystem.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    The same goes for Windows. Someone who grew up on Macs will have to learn the particularities of Windows or Linux just the same if they wanted to switch to either. Every user has got to put their own effort into learning the ropes. It is no different with anything else in life. You can't just expect everything to be handed to you on a silver platter. I grew up on MS-DOS and Commodore BASIC. Then came Windows 3.x and GEOS, Workbench on the Amiga, and eventually Windows 95. I had to learn each and every one of their particularities as I moved between them. Windows XP? Windows 7? Windows 10? Each one came with changes people complained about. Mac has had its upsets as well. Linux changed from its UNIX beginnings to have the variation we have today. Find something which looks like you want to learn the ropes and stick with it. Or don't and go touch some grass, I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    But it doesn’t… windows has been the same (download and click) for decades. The same for Mac. Linux is different between every distro. And even for one distro you might have several install methods. It’s just not the same at all.

    And if you start talking about other things, not just installing, then I literally covered that in my comment! Updating is much easier on Linux! Even with all the crazy install methods. But we’re not talking about other things, we’re talking about installing.

    This is the same damn bullshit that I’ve been saying for years that the Linux community does. You’re the problem. Stop acting like Linux is perfect. Take feedback. Understand that there are things to improve and that something like having twenty ways to install isn’t a benefit of the platform but a major downside.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You're the problem in this conversation because you keep tripping over the smallest things. You start talking about how there's no update process for AppImages and then you tell me not to talk about updates but only talk about installing things when I comment on that. You're indistinguishable from a sealion right now, so I'm out of this conversation. I never said Linux was perfect, that was a figment of your imagination. I just said that every OS has a learning curve. Stick with what you like or work to help fix what you don't like. Yapping about it in the way you have done so far is not helping anyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I didn’t say jack shit about AppImages so clearly you are conflating this conversation with another one. You are the problem here, not me. My message has been extremely consistent. We are talking about installing, that’s literally the only thing I discussed in this thread.

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