why?

    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I can install whatever I want without any command lines lmao. Thanks for proving my point. Windows just kinda works with an (mostly) intuitive UI and no need to remember thousands of commands which make no sense.

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        Windows just kinda works

        This is how you made clear that you aren’t very experienced. The type of shit that goes wrong with Linux and Windows has a lot of overlap. The difference being that if Linux breaks you have a chance to learn something and fix it. Whereas when Windows inevitably bricks your system with a shitty update that got force installed, you normally have to reinstall your OS

        Just admit that your issue with Linux is that you learned a thing and don’t want to learn another because you’re a lazy coward.

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        You say this as if command line is bad? I love the command line for certain tasks. A very common task I do is convert an image from one filetype to another. How does this work on windows? Assuming I have a program that works with each image filetype, I open up the program, click on some menus and dropdown selections and click convert or “save as file type”. On linux, where every major distro has imagemagick installed by default I type

        convert image.jpg image.pdf

        and done. I mean, how much easier can that be?

        Or another example is merging a bunch of pdfs. I imagine adobe acrobat can do this, but I’ve never bothered to learn how, as I quickly learned that I can do it using pdftk on linux by typing

        pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output merged.pdf

        and done. If I do happen to forget the exact syntax for that command, google gives me the answer instantly.

        If there’s a difficult command line thing to do with lots of options that can get confusing, there is a GUI interface that someone has written that has the dropdown boxes so you don’t HAVE to learn the specific options, but a little bit of learning the command line makes many tasks way more convenient than a typical windows GUI program.

        Regarding wine, you’ve obviously have never used it (or likely even linux). I used my linux pc for 13 years before installing wine to play WoW. (side note to another of your strange assertions, I knew zero programming languages when I switched to linux.) Although, I wasn’t really gaming at all in that time period. I mainly do work on my pc, and the software I use is so much more convenient to us on linux than windows: mainly latex and vim. Some friend asked me to play WoW with them and I said “If I can get it to run on linux, I will.” Kind of thinking it would be a huge pain in the ass to get to run. But the whole process went super smooth, it was maybe 3 commands and now I use zero command line to launch WoW using wine.

        Finally, I don’t like the windows UI. Floating desktop managers always annoyed me (including the linux ones such as gnome) whenever I needed multiple windows displayed at once. Way too much fiddliness adjusting window sizes and borders. I learned about tiling window managers, and that’s what I use now. Is tiling even possible on windows? I know you can win+arrow to kinda do this, but then rearranging can be a pain. I know this is all personal preference and most people like floating windows, but it’s a choice I can make on linux.

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        8 months ago

        Yah but you need to do 55 clicks instead to install some program after downloading it from browser.

        You can install and run wine from either GUI(even less clicks) or just a oneliner command

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          55 clicks? Just a double click on the installer and go through the wizard, ez pz, especially when compared to

          -git sudo 82737492 dor kror o k /87 +91 ||qidl

          Just for it not to work since you don’t have the required punchcard from 60s

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            55 clicks because you exxagurated commands as well

            Actually, open chrome and downloading the exe installer itself takes almost 10clicks + typing the search query. Then clicks to go to downloads, double clicking the exe, the wizard appears. Now the wizards for apps might differ but on average you may have to select some options, maybe select install directory, then click next, next,next, install

            Wait untill installed

            Click finish.

            This is more tiresome than opening store, searching app, click install

            Or alternatively sudo apt install wine

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                What’s unintuitive about sudo apt install wine?

                • sudo - equivalent to right clicking and running as administrator
                • apt - just an abbreviation of Advanced Package Tool, but this is almost rarely seen without install, remove, update, or upgrade after it so most beginners think of apt install as one part
                • install - self-explanatory
                • wine - the name of what you want to install

                 

                -git sudo 82737492 dor kror o k /87 +91 ||qidl

                This is an invalid command, but nice try.