yep, people are afraid to call Linux out on its problems because it's open source and free and it makes a lot of people money and we should just be glad to have an alternative at all.. but there are many serious problems with it, it's easy to forget this if you don't have the courage to keep saying it despite the things I mentioned.
1. linux portability. yes, most likely you cant just write one app and it works on 'linux'. without additional work it will only work on your specific distro. Probably even just your specific distro with a specific version number.
2. linux installers in general. i get it, we all like just typing in a quick command and installing a whole suite of programs. thats nice. but for general installations, in 99% of the cases it would be helpful to offer some easy gui click-through installer just like we get on windows.
3. easy to break it: no, i dont see it as my personal user error if i install some random nvidia driver from some random ppa and it breaks my boot desktop and i only get a black screen. i dont care how i broke it, that simply should not be possible ever.
>1. linux portability. yes, most likely you cant just write one app and it works on 'linux'. without additional work it will only work on your specific distro. Probably even just your specific distro with a specific version number. 2. linux installers in general. i get it, we all like just typing in a quick command and installing a whole suite of programs. thats nice. but for general installations, in 99% of the cases it would be helpful to offer some easy gui click-through installer just like we get on windows. 3. easy to break it: no, i dont see it as my personal user error if i install some random nvidia driver from some random ppa and it breaks my boot desktop and i only get a black screen. i dont care how i broke it, that simply should not be possible ever.
1. & 2. We're not in the 90s. Nowadays, I go to chrome or JetBrains and download one of _four_ files: a 32bit deb, a 32bin rpm, a 64bit deb, and a 64 bit rpm, and use a graphics installer.
3. You download an EXE and it breaks your computer? Naah, can't happen on Windows /s .
I think people should be reminded that downloading things from some PPA is _exactly_ like downloading random_cat_video.exe
1. linux portability. yes, most likely you cant just write one app and it works on 'linux'. without additional work it will only work on your specific distro. Probably even just your specific distro with a specific version number. 2. linux installers in general. i get it, we all like just typing in a quick command and installing a whole suite of programs. thats nice. but for general installations, in 99% of the cases it would be helpful to offer some easy gui click-through installer just like we get on windows. 3. easy to break it: no, i dont see it as my personal user error if i install some random nvidia driver from some random ppa and it breaks my boot desktop and i only get a black screen. i dont care how i broke it, that simply should not be possible ever.