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It just doesn't work. It's a simple as that. Things are constantly breaking. When they do I look up support articles that are written in fucking Klingon and sent to the terminal to type in commands that always return some sort of generic error "command not found" or some shit because the solution is written for a different one of the 862700422 available distros.
I have no idea how to install all the different program types (flathub, db, appimage, etc.). Windows has exe. I click "install" and boom, it's done.
Sometimes I try to remove software in the package manager and it acts like it is uninstalled but it's still fucking there.
I can't even select a file because there are no previews. Just a gazillion blue squares with names like "dlcosn_3947912947".
And other reasons, but I digress. I don't have time to learn a new career, I just want a computer that works.
That's strange, I've always felt that installing stuff is a lot easier on Ubuntu than windows. It's just
apt install <program>andapt remove <program>. Having to manually download and run an exe feels outdated in comparison.Curious what distro you installed that had that issue. The only preview issue I've encountered was on win10 where I had to pay for windows to support H.265 to give me previews of H.265 files.
That's a fair point though. 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.
๐ 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.
Fedora/Gnome
Yes and the problem is you're ALWAYS sent into the terminal for absolutely any kind of debugging.
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.