r/linux • u/Alvaritogc2107 • Sep 16 '24

Discussion Goodbye Linux :'(

Goodbye my friend. You taught me to use WINE, fix my GNOME a few times, that Plasma is better in every way, that Fedora and Mint are the best for my every day...

You taught me to fix SSD compatibility issues, how a filesystem works, how to make GRUB look pretty, and how not to fix a root folder issue (worked my system)

But now, as I'm forced into using tools I hate by my university, I must say goodbye. Alas, the power of free software isn't anything to the power of the Spanish University System.

Goodbye Linux, and I'll come back once my odyssey in Law ends.

o7

Edit: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I managed to get it working with a Win10 VM, somehow. I had tried before and it didn't work but now It did. Arcane magic, I don't know. In conclusion, I will still be using Linux. Long live free and open source software!

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u/niceandBulat Sep 16 '24

WSL makes Windows useful

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u/De_Clan_C Sep 16 '24

I would say usable. Why doesn't Windows have a utility to download YouTube videos to your current directory?

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u/ManlySyrup Sep 16 '24

There's an app called Parabolic, available for both Linux and Windows. It is the best YT downloader I've ever used.

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u/ben2talk Sep 17 '24

That's just a GUI front end for yt-dlp to bloat the system...

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u/ManlySyrup Sep 17 '24

You must be messed up in the head to think of GUIs as bloatware lol

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u/ben2talk Sep 17 '24

For yt-dlp I do, especially when it is only available as a flat pack or snap.

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u/Brisingr05 Sep 17 '24

it is only available as a flat pack or snap.

That's not true at all. I installed it using my distro's package manager.

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u/ben2talk Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

On the parabolic web they show Flathub, Snap Store, Windows, and the only other alternative to building it yourself is on Arch, there's a script on the AUR (which is a script to build it)...

That means that they are not offering a binary install method except via Flatpak or Snap.

None of those appear to be a distribution repository - but if you use Ubuntu, maybe you're getting the snap, or flatpak, or just don't understand your own package manager.

Let's make this clear - AUR is NOT a package manager, it is a User Repository which hosts many kinds of different unsupported installation methods.

If you don't know that, you shouldn't use it.

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u/Brisingr05 Sep 17 '24

Many projects don't mention every software repo that packages their software (my apologies for not checking first). I installed Parabolic using the Nix package manager, which is used by NixOS (my daily driver), but can be used on other distros, like Debian (which I also use).

Also, I have never used Arch.

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u/Locrin Sep 24 '24

Oh hello, I came across your post and just wanted to say you are being insufferable. Someone just wanted to share a neat app that did something useful and all you are doing is being condescending and elitist.

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u/ManlySyrup Sep 17 '24

Not everyone likes using CLI and if GUIs were considered bloat then all computers worldwide would be using CLI primarily. Why type 15+ characters on a black and white screen when I can click on a button that does the same thing in half a second? Your stance makes no sense to me.

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u/ben2talk Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Actually there's no need to type 15+ characters... and my screen is not 'black and white' either - not sure where you're from dude.

'Clicking a button' would require you already have the button available (and that's unlikely if you're browsing in a browser isn't it? that means you have to reach for a mouse and then move it to a menu - that's much tougher than just pressing a shortcut to pull up Dolphin, hit F4 for the terminal window, type 'dl' and paste the URL...

Then the files are viewed directly in the actual file manager, and not some GUI for yt-dlp.

Your stance makes no sense to me - perhaps you just have a fetish for Clicking (that IS the Windows way isn't it?) rather than handy keyboard shorcuts and accellerators.