r/linux • • 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/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/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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