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Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

All linux distrobutions are essentially just linux with prepackaged apps. all apps built for one distro can be run on another. So in essence there is no difference besides the installation process, gui, and package manager. (Probably going to get flamed for this because this is kind of a half truth but for most users this is how id describe it, For ease of understanding)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Right, but there is kind of a way distros do certain things, where they put stuff, how they organize the file structure, etc. So the difference is 'Oh yeah this is an issue with xyz, go to /etc/marf/gooble/whatever and edit this file to say 'Tuesday' instead of 'Marlene' and there is no /etc/marf/...

    I ran into this problem a lot with PopOS in the couple weeks I fiddled with it (and with every single problem in the brief time I tried Bazzite since it containerizes everything), which is why I was thinking of going mainline Ubuntu since most of the solutions I came across to the problems I was having were answering questions posted by Ubuntu users and therefore the answers were tailored to Ubuntu.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Okay i see what your saying. but im an arch user and often use distro specific tutorials from other distros to troubleshoot issues. After a little while youll just subconsiously translate what theyre telling you to do in your distro specificly.

    Also resources like reddit and stack overflow are great for you to reach out and get a better understanding. But if youve ever been hit with the "did you read the wiki?" or "they just link a wiki page" I can understand how frustrating it can be. Many linux users are pompus dicks who thinks every user should be a power user. My recommendation is still to reach out for help, ive had great success with the manjaro forum aswell.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, but I haven't messed with linux in like ~15 years except for my most recent attempt, so I don't remember where things ought to be so I don't know that if someone says to look in /etc/marf that on my distro it might be in /etc/bloop instead or whatever. And yeah, I used reddit/stack overflow (wasn't it called stack exchange before? shrug), it's just like I said I kept running into solutions that I couldn't make work for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    all apps built for one distro can be run on another.

    Pfft no. They won't even work on earlier versions of the same distro. Or later. Or any distro where you've installed a library or driver thats older or newer than the one needed for the app your installing.

    So in essence there is no difference besides the installation process, gui, and package manager.

    There are three different package systems (Red Hat, Debian and Arch) and they are all completely incompatible with each other, and earlier versions of themselves. You can use containers like Snap or Flatpack or half a dozen other standards, which again are all incompatible with each other, and all of them except Snap aren't fully containerised either - they are dependent on specific libraries and drivers in the distro.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You have no idea what you are talking about.

    In fact i wasnt even going to respond to this but you are so wildly misinformed that I assumed you are trolling. But you might actually lack the ability to use google or the AI you seem to want to suck off.

    You are correct here

    There are three different package systems (Red Hat, Debian and Arch) and they are all completely incompatible with each other

    But your dumbass actually writes PACKAGE systems. Do you know what a package has inside it? The product! Wow! So if you have the source code... and use a tool to build it on your distro... its almost like youre an idiot.

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