just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online

Why, are you using Gentoo?
Package management is by far one of the easiest things on Linux, especially with Flatpak, even easier than on Windows that, for comparison, got a package manager only recently and it's still barebones af

[–] mgiuca@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a long time Linux user, I was amazed when the entire tech industry "invented" package management a couple of decades after Linux. Did you know Apple invented the idea of being able to install an app and all its dependencies, signed by a central authority? So much easier than any other OS before it!

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, didn't even know about it, well typical Apple behavior ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯