When you download software for Linux you dont get a script that installs the 12 internal parts of a program, you get 12 lines to paste into the command line. And 3 don't work, and you have no idea what any of them mean.
I've said this before but I installed Linux on my computer and had the repeated experience of following installation instructions for programs and having to install dependencies that weren't mentioned in the instructions - but those dependencies had their own missing dependencies that also weren't mentioned in those installation instructions.
I successfully did this a few times because I know how to use Google and accurately follow instructions. I work with computers for a living and I have done basic programming. I'm not a dummy about this sort of thing.
And I'm running Ubuntu, the most basic/popular distro, not some cut-down lite OS or something.
It is a huge fucking hassle. Not having spent the last 15 years using linux, I don't know what "sp rn ln instpkg - 0" means and so it's a blind dive down the rabbit hole trying to replicate rote steps written by, well, the type of person who writes software for Linux. I got the distinct impression that "it's already installed" is true of their machine but not mine.
I've not used Ubuntu in like a decade, but what the heck are you installing that you've ever had to worry about that nonsense? Fedora/Debian is my goto, and it comes with a software store that will install 95% of things you want with a single click. The rest are downloads that take two clicks.
Playing a lot of different games that definitely work in Linux, and launchers for those games, etc. The one I completely gave up on was an AI image generator but that's probably for the best lmao
Inaccurate.
When you download software for Linux you dont get a script that installs the 12 internal parts of a program, you get 12 lines to paste into the command line. And 3 don't work, and you have no idea what any of them mean.
I've said this before but I installed Linux on my computer and had the repeated experience of following installation instructions for programs and having to install dependencies that weren't mentioned in the instructions - but those dependencies had their own missing dependencies that also weren't mentioned in those installation instructions.
I successfully did this a few times because I know how to use Google and accurately follow instructions. I work with computers for a living and I have done basic programming. I'm not a dummy about this sort of thing.
And I'm running Ubuntu, the most basic/popular distro, not some cut-down lite OS or something.
It is a huge fucking hassle. Not having spent the last 15 years using linux, I don't know what "sp rn ln instpkg - 0" means and so it's a blind dive down the rabbit hole trying to replicate rote steps written by, well, the type of person who writes software for Linux. I got the distinct impression that "it's already installed" is true of their machine but not mine.
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I've not used Ubuntu in like a decade, but what the heck are you installing that you've ever had to worry about that nonsense? Fedora/Debian is my goto, and it comes with a software store that will install 95% of things you want with a single click. The rest are downloads that take two clicks.
Playing a lot of different games that definitely work in Linux, and launchers for those games, etc. The one I completely gave up on was an AI image generator but that's probably for the best lmao