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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have been using Linux for about 5 years and although I don't consider that I know much, I know enough to fix my own problems and that's usually enough for me.

Since Plasma 6 was announced I wanted to test something other than XFCE, Gnome or Plasma (or any DE) so I give it a try with ArcoLinuxD i3wm and is increible the amount of things I learn the 'hard way' because there was no GUI to do the things I want to do, or maybe I was too lazy to do it with the terminal since there is always the 'easy way'.

Things that might be very easy for a lot of people, but I never take the time to learn, like mounting drives, running programs from startup, setting environment variables, creating desktop entries, and a lot of other things I didn't even remember. I even learned to use things that used to give me a headache just looking at it, like Vim, xdg, the Archwiki (that is super useful) and the manpages.

It's ironic because something that started as an experiment is now my daily drive, and now that Plasma 6 has been released, I don't want to leave i3 behind.

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[-] brenticus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The discover store comes with KDE nowadays. GNOME has a similar store. Most recommended distros will preinstall one of those two. Ubuntu has a similar snap store, I think.

I guess the steam flatpak is unofficial. Works, though. Very simple, lazy solution. Could have gone through the fedora repos, too, where they've gone through the effort of repacking the deb for their users.

Dunno what your package manager problem is. Don't even know what you're running. Mine works fine, and certainly better than the windows store 🤷

Appimages sure aren't recognized as system apps. They're basically like an exe on windows. I'd rather manually add my rare appimage to the menu than go through the installer hell windows has.

Your point seems a little silly because, honestly, my experience is that developers have largely made the Linux desktop experience so simple and stable that it works better than any windows machine I've used in the past decade. I'm sorry this hasn't been your experience, but in the last couple of years I've pretty much only needed to open the terminal because I want to, not because I need to.

[-] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

my experience is that developers have largely made the Linux desktop experience so simple and stable that it works better than any windows machine I’ve used in the past decade

And their user needs blogs and posts from itsfoss, tecmint, ... to instruct them how to use their package manager, even need people to teach them how to type in the search bar(?).

When they switch to BSDs they always complain about "lack of documentation" because they are not willing to read pkg_add(1) nor pkg(8) and they want documentations to give them the ability to copy pkg_add php-8.3.3 php-mysqli-8.3.3 maria mariadb-client mariadb-server.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -4 points 5 months ago

The discover store comes with KDE nowadays. GNOME has a similar store.

Yes that's the store I was referring to that doesn't work. Installed different distros on different devices and Gnome Software never works.

Ubuntu has a similar snap store, I think.

Yes and that has already caused problem and Valve specifically recommends NOT installing it, but you won't find that in the store.

Dunno what your package manager problem is.

I just told you exactly what it is.

They're basically like an exe on windows.

LOL they're absolutely nothing like that.

I'd rather manually add my rare appimage to the menu than go through the installer hell windows has.

Jesus, really? You mean the one that works exactly the same every time? The one where you go to the website, download the .exe, double click and it installs itself?

[-] brenticus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Uh, I kind of assume you're trolling at this point since a) you got notably more unpleasant in a hurry, and b) if you think exes work the same way every time you have lived a weirdly blessed life.

I hope you sort out your package management problems sometime but this has clearly gotten unproductive. Cheers!

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 5 months ago

Jesus can we not have a single discussion that doesn't inevitably devolve into accusations of "trolling" when you run out of legitimate arguments? If anything you're trolling with this nonsense about AppImages being the same as exe's.

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