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Lol Linux is easier than Windows, you don’t need to know any troubleshooting secrets or bash. Even the installation is easier
How many people do you know with Android phones that know bash?
Terminal isn’t any more necessary on Linux than Windows but the commands are simpler
The downside of Linux is that it’s free, that means they can’t afford to pay manufacturers to include their OS at the same scale as Microsoft. Thus Windows will have more users and be a more profitable ecosystem to target software for
Equating Android and desktop linux isnt very accurate. Terminal on android is very limited compared to linux. Many common softwares are still installed with commands and occasionally need maintenance and most are done via commands.
Recently helped a few setup ubuntu as dual boot. Installation isnt always smooth and most accompanying software stores are buggy or dont have many commonly used softwares.
Endeavour + pamac > Ubuntu + snaps
Cant comment on endeavour as I've not used it. Not fan of snaps either and go for deb when on ubuntu. Now pop doesnt even have snaps by default.
Only reason I might install snap is becos I want to try microk8s and not setup a full on k8s cluster.
There is also Nix package manager that people can have fun with
Are you saying i can try microk8s via kix rather than snap? If so more reason to learn and setup nix manager.
Apparently not, they aren’t deploying it any other way
It’s a shame but I guess it’s canonical
Been using Ubuntu on my desktop for a couple of years, following a couple years use of WSL (so I'm very comfortable using the terminal etc)
Off the top of my head, some of the stuff I ran into almost immediately:
the package manager has been essentially unusable - the home page will work okay, but trying to view or install any applications through it, it just hangs forever. So I just go and use apt-get, but that's not what I'd call 'easier' or 'just works'
Firefox windows regularly break - the contents of the page still work fine but I can't resize or move the window, have to close it and open a new one. This happens multiple times a day
only way I could get the discord app installed was with a .deb (since the package manager didn't work), so as soon as it's out of date I just get a message saying "you need to update". So I have to use it in the browser
speaking of discord - I like to use push to talk. Guess what, push to talk is impossible with Wayland. Supposedly this is a feature, not a bug
also couldn't get vnc working to remote home while travelling, due to Wayland. Maybe if I persisted with troubleshooting I could have got it to work, but it took me 30s on windows.
installed zoom - it won't launch from the gui, I have to launch it from the terminal. Also, 'join this meeting' web links don't work, I have to copy paste them into the app
There's plenty more quirks I run into all the time but thats just shit I run into with a clean install and very typical hardware.
I love interacting with Linux through the terminal - I hate interacting with it through a gui. That's not my definition of easier lol
Not my Kubuntu experience, and sounds like something broke.
Which can happen with Windows too.
Have you tried just downloading the app image off of websites and running it that way? Most windows users don’t use the windows repos
I’ve had no issues with Firefox or discord but I don’t use wayland