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Have you ever been disappointed with Linux? (libretechni.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Personally I haven't. While Linux is imperfect, choosing the right distro makes the rest of the experience straightforward. And with it's whole complexity, I find Linux more user friendly than Windows. Even driver issues, broken shadow file ownership and KDE specifics only made me more confident about my choice to use Linux after I solved everything.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm disappointed by the number of packages that aren't signed by developers.

Or that go with less secure package managers like flatpak instead of just working with Debian devs to add it to the official repos, because apt is actually secure.

Overall Linux has shifted over the past 10 years to be more of a dangerous place to download software. So more like Windows and Apple.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The number of things that want you to run a bash script to install is way too damn high.

I've also started to see more things recommend installation using homebrew on Linux.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Curl piped to sudo bash. My god.

[–] Firnin@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm no developer myself, but it sounds like a huge hassle to add your software to the official repos of the most popular distributions instead of providing an .AppImage and/or flatpak

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah, you contact a maintainer. They do it for you. You just have to supply code and licensing info and stuff

[–] Firnin@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, okay. That sounds easy. Is this a one-time thing or do you have to do this for every update you push?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the update. If you add new lib depends, they'll ask for the licensing of them (and if you include a closed source blob they might kick you out).

But most of the time you just do your own Dev and they'll update without needing to communicate to them.

[–] Firnin@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you for the insight :)