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Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've always felt that installing stuff is a lot easier on Ubuntu than windows. It's just apt install and apt remove .

๐Ÿ˜‚ Except that you have to know exactly what is, character for character, and usually includes some long string of numbers and letters where 1 character is wrong and you have to retype the whole damn thing. This is the opposite of easy.

Curious what distro you installed that had that issue.

Fedora/Gnome

If you aren't willing (and most aren't) to learn enough to be comfortable with the terminal, it can be very easy break something when you are forced to interact with the terminal.

Yes and the problem is you're ALWAYS sent into the terminal for absolutely any kind of debugging.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Been using linux for 6ish years.

Aint nothin @HughJanus said thats wrong.

assuming what you want is even on apt. if its not, then you gotta add the repository.. and some stuff doesnt even offer that. So you gotta find and download the .deb file. or even compile it from source yourself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except that you have to know exactly what is, character for character

Everything has [Tab] completion these days.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

And double tab for a list of you really don't want to search.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don't you use the Software App for installing Apps?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Because the apps I need are not in the Software App

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Except that you have to know exactly what is, character for character, and usually includes some long string of numbers and letters where 1 character is wrong and you have to retype the whole damn thing. This is the opposite of easy.

If it a program you are unfamiliar with, yes you'll probably need to search for the apt name and copy paste. I much prefer that over searching a website, verifying it's not a scam site, then download the exe, and then run the exe once the download is finished. After the first time, just add it to a .sh script and then you can download every program you need automatically if you ever need to set up a new instance again.

I guess it's not for all, but worst case it's hardly any more work than needing to go to a website to download the exe.