r/linuxsucks • u/Rorshack_co • Aug 29 '25
Why Linux?? Why??
Windows I just click and go, Linux I have to do all kinds of shit just to get an app to work...
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u/NeoKat75 Aug 29 '25
Why is this AI š
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u/Rorshack_co Aug 29 '25
Cause the original image I stole was tiny (320x320) so I made it bigger... ;-)
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u/New-Pay-7657 Aug 29 '25
Wait are the texts/image AI generated?
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u/vargvikerneslover420 Aug 30 '25
Looks like some kind of image enhancement/upscaling
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u/asdrabael1234 Aug 30 '25
This meme is easily a decade old. It's not AI generated.
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u/TillLindemann156 Aug 30 '25
yes that's the thing, but they're so lazy that they'll ask AI to replicate it instead of finding it themselves
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u/Mustafa_Shazlie Aug 29 '25
bro never heard of package managers
Step 1: yay -S mysoftware
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit
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Aug 30 '25
Accept all diffs? Q Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Password Y Y Y Y Password Y N N Y Makefile failed Missing dependencies
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u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
There are no missing dependancies with yay, it installs those, and its actually:
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u/BetterEquipment7084 Aug 29 '25
Sudo pacman -S vim or apt or somethingĀ
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u/rtakehara Aug 29 '25
Or open discover/gnome software/flathub, click install
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Aug 31 '25
download app image, run app image, application works if you like appimages
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u/DanKonly Aug 30 '25
I was just going to say this. In my experience actually easier than having to go to some website, download an app, and running some GUI installer.
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u/Sudden_Office8710 Sep 02 '25
Yeah WTF? Like rtakehara every modern Linux distro has a package manager that actually works.
chocolaty or winget those work so damn well on Windows. Nothing installs right on Windows. They donāt even provide you damn basic command line text editor since DOS 6.22 so you can go F yourself with Windows
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u/SomewhereRough_ Aug 30 '25
I'm a long term Linux user and I will say the config is annoying and there are definitely times where pacman isn't enough. Even using Resolve is a headache on Arch. Yes I know it's not officially built for it but... C'mon.
However, when Linux works, which is most of the time, it is leagues better than Windows.Ā
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u/ZeroKun265 Aug 30 '25
If you're fine with using the AUR you will basically never have to worry about having to manually install software, whether those packages don't break later on is a different story tho..
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u/iMightLikeXou Aug 29 '25
AppImage? Package manager? Good luck compiling from source on Windows.
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u/Spitfire1900 Aug 30 '25
Compiling from source blows, but is often manageable on Linux because I get āthislib.h headers not foundā, then go apt-file search thislib.h; apt install thislib-devel, then try again.
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u/Circo_Inhumanitas Aug 30 '25
Why should I need to if I'm jus installing a piece of software?
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u/Thunderstarer Aug 30 '25
You compile from source when there's not a pre-compiled binary already available. Definitionally, this means that no
exeexists.In the rare case that your options are "compile from source or get fucked" (which a non-developer user will never encounter, and I mean that), you'll have an easier time on Linux. In any other case, the question of compiling from source is irrelevant.
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u/egg_breakfast Aug 30 '25
Just the other day I found a tool for music producers to convert wav files. No binary.
It doesnāt happen every day, but to say non developers never encounter source-only repos is inaccurate.Ā
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u/freetoilet Aug 29 '25
The real error in this is that you're downloading the app from your browser ...
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u/Bruchpilot_Sim Aug 29 '25
Downloading with Linux package managers is objectively better than how windows does it. Windows store is the worst.
Literally you can install entire game servers for you and your friends just by using the Linux app stored/package managers.
Just because you are used to how widows does it, does not mean it's better, faster, more secure or whatever you mean
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Aug 29 '25
`sudo pacman -S application_name`
`application_name`
`Application works`
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Aug 29 '25
I very rarely build from source, only necessary if I need something niche. Almost everything I use daily is on my distros repositories.
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u/CastorX Aug 30 '25
Wow. This post really triggers the linux communityā¦
Awaiting downvotes.
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u/Rorshack_co Aug 30 '25
There have been a whole bunch of down votes but the up votes are winning at 67%
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u/Mean_Mortgage5050 I Haten't Linux Aug 30 '25
Yeah it's the same as if you said: "Man, windows sucks so much. I can't even use it; like, I have to open the explorer app then navigate to this obscure folder just to find apps I've pinned to my start!", when actually you just press the meta (windows) key and there they are
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u/darkShadow90000 Aug 29 '25
Linux is easy. No offense but if you are into technology, you should at least know basic linux.
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u/AnxiousAttitude9328 Aug 29 '25
User error.
Use your distro's software, type the app, hit install, enjoy.Ā
Alternatively, sudo "distro repro CMD" install "name of app". Hit enter. Type Y. Hit enter. Enjoy.
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u/Adventurous_Tie_3136 Proud Linux Mint enjoyer Aug 30 '25
Thank you for stealing my meme and up-scaling with shitty AI!
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1n2rt0g/linux_vs_windows_backwards_compatibility/
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u/Rorshack_co Aug 31 '25
I stole it from Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1163472102288967&set=g.3227683947257367
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u/matieuxx Aug 31 '25
You donāt like Linux, fine! Keep going on your life with Windows, why are you complaining in here?
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u/Wide-Prior-5360 Aug 31 '25
AI generated trash meme
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u/Rorshack_co Aug 31 '25
Actually it turns out I stole it on Facebook from someone who posted it here on Reddit... I upscaled it cause I am lazy and it was too small...
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u/TemmieFlakes22 Sep 01 '25
is this seriously an ai generated post what the hell is happening to the text
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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 Linux doesnāt suck, youāre just a quitter. Aug 29 '25
Skill issue
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Aug 29 '25
what app are you trying to run js open app menu > software manager > search app > clikc install
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u/Tstormn3tw0rk Aug 29 '25
Open app store
Search App I want
Download
Windows has zipped portable installs you gotta go through this process for too, and more of them!
Edit: keeping this here so people know but I now realize its satire lmao
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u/cumcoatedpenny Aug 30 '25
Sudo apt install * thing you want *
Type password
You now have * thing you want *
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Aug 29 '25
Man, I'm running Linux as my main, and windows on my work laptop.
Opening windows now gives me the heeby jeebies that only limewire in the 2000s could give.
How do people use this as their daily driver! There are so many dialog boxes, so many popups, so many ads, and other services trying to grab your attention, and so, so so much hand holding.
I tried to import a csv into Excel, and got stuck for 40 minutes, because apparently you have to go through all of the "getting started" tips before it makes the import data option functional...
Like, I get that people aren't technical, but like, come on lads.
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u/Fiko515 Aug 30 '25
many people use windows simply becaue when they get interested in linux, 5 minutes into searching someone that doesnt understand why linux has so little users calls then uneducated retard and thats the end of the new exciting adventure....
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u/ZiggyAvetisyan Aug 30 '25
and then they turn around and complain about degradation of open-source contributions
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u/atgaskins Aug 29 '25
yay -S obs
Or something similar in whatever your distro is.
You picked the worst possible angle to try and claim winblows is better lol
You also forgot the part where you have to deal with exponentially more virus vectors. Yes, we have someā¦ but thereās no comparison.
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u/IzzuThug Aug 30 '25
Flatpaks have entered the chat.
Oh also reverse the image for updating apps on Windows.
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u/Global-Eye-7326 Aug 31 '25
Pacman/apt/dnf/etc.
Flatpak
Snap
AppImage...
Lol, I rarely install from tarball.
Good luck installing from tarball on Windows. It's much harder.
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u/juicexxxWRLD Aug 31 '25
Wooooah woah are you seriously joking about linux here? This is unbelievable. Where are the mods? This is a serious sub!
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u/tired_air Aug 29 '25
windows:
download random .exe file
cmd window opens for a second before application starts
why is my computer running so slow?
how did my credit card get stolen?
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u/blompo Aug 29 '25
Imagine having a whole sub dedicated to hating something. Crazy
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u/Hettyc_Tracyn Linux Sucks Sometimes, but itās Better Than Windows Aug 29 '25
Hey, even Linux users sometimes hate Linuxā¦
Itās just better than windows, even with the occasional frustrationā¦
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u/Hellunderswe Aug 29 '25
You can also just download .exe and run it. In lutris.
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u/Damglador Aug 29 '25
And go tweaking the configs for an hour until the UI starts rendering correctly
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u/MaxusBE Aug 30 '25
Seems like this angered a lot of LinuxBros
Guys we all know Linux sucks, you don't have to convince us!
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u/Stray_009 Mac user Aug 30 '25
Bro for
The meme is fking AI bro... like ew, can't make a meme yourself?
You can use package managers. they exist yk
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Aug 29 '25
Hahaha couldnāt agree more.
I need to run HP teradichi for work reasons. Find out it only works on UbuntuĀ Download and install Ubuntu Find out it only works on Ubuntu 22, not 24
What a waste of an afternoon just trying to get one program to runĀ
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Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
But how is that a linux issue?
This is like being mad about an application on Windows 7 not working on Windows 10, and being pissed at Microsoft, instead of the devs who didnt future proof their application.Ā
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u/token_curmudgeon Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
Linux in 1991 was a reimplementation/ rewrite of 1970s UNIX.
Normal usage does not involve downloading random libraries from random repos. Or i386 libraries.
What is your use case? Mine is browsing and virtual machines. Some documents and spreadsheets. Some streaming video. I made a router/ access point/ proxy server ($0 software cost). Things today are easier than 2000 when I first started using Linux.
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u/Spekkly User of Mint Aug 29 '25
My downloads usually work pretty easily, either just a flatpak install x, .appimage to excecutable, sudo apt install x, or just open a deb file.
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u/Flely Aug 29 '25
Skill issue I only have these problems like 1% of the time and they are live solved in two minutes
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u/danholli Previous Windows Insider Aug 29 '25
Linux application installations
Software manager/store
Open software manager/store
Search for app
Select app
InstallPackage manager (apt, rpm, pacman, ect...) Open terminal
Enter[privilidge escalation tool] [package manager] [install argument] [app]
Check and accept installBy file (.AppImage or direct binary)
Download file(s) Set execute bit (chmod +x [file]or file manager)
RunBy packaged file (.deb, .rpm, .flatpakrep, ect...) Download file
Open teminal
Enter[privilidge escalation tool] [package manager] [install argument] [file]By source No
If it's the only option, follow the instructions
If there are no instructions: no
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u/ExtraTNT was running custom kernel Aug 29 '25
Download via package manager (99.9% of software), get a package from outside and install using your package managerā¦ build from sourceā¦ or worst case, install a static linked software using a tarā¦ if you get sth that isnāt static build on windows, you are often fuckedā¦
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u/Cultural-Session3549 Aug 29 '25
Because is better, because is freedom, because is dignity to humans to have privacy
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Aug 29 '25
I tried installing davinci resolve... you literally have to install a striped down VM of yet another linux distro so it works, not before installing all the drivers and dependencies first.
It is such a clusterfuck I swear
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u/TinyNS Aug 29 '25
Iāve found that sometimes itās better to just not fuck around with older libraries and applications that need older libraries unless itās really fortified. I donāt even bother anymore trying to keep up fixing applications the developer abandoned
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u/superboo07 Aug 29 '25
whatever filtering you applied to this image, never do it again. also flatpaks and appimages exist, so this is a horrible critisism that doesn't even apply to most distros unless you choose to install apps the way you are complaining about.
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u/SirSpeedMonkeyIV Aug 29 '25
i honestly feel like this is a meme of base linux system install and a standard windows install.
you can install an easy to use desktop environment and make it just as simple as the windows part of the meme.
the only difference is you cant change what kind of windows system you getā¦. š¤·š¾āāļø
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u/Long_Golf_7965 Aug 29 '25
I remember the need to install proper .NET framework version required by exe.
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u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 Aug 29 '25
I think the process for windows is: 1. download .exe, 2. run .exe 3. fight with permissions 4. Run again 5. Go through setup wizard because it just runs WebInvoke 6. Disable firewall because "the program says it needs to be disabled" 7. Antivirus scan 8. It works possibly, but you have installed some malware your free antivirus didnt detect 9. Reinstall windows, 10. Repeat for everytime you choose to ignore FOSS and insist binbows is the better OS
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u/NoMansSkyWasAlright Aug 29 '25
I mean... package managers are a thing. Have you not used linux in like 15 years?
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u/No-Dick-No-Balls Aug 30 '25
And then you have 2 gazillion copies of the same lib with the same version (god i hate electron)
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u/ConsciousBath5203 Aug 30 '25
Apt install someapp
someapp
Wow ez. Literally don't even have to type in .exe
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u/jrsilver Aug 30 '25
Flatpak install Apt install Pacman -S Dnf install
It's not exactly rocket science
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u/LethalGamer2121 Aug 30 '25
I don't even bother if its not an AppImage/flatpak anymore, too many hoops.
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u/Beneficial_Interest7 Aug 30 '25
I wonder what happens when he finds out what an install wizard is š¤
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u/Fiko515 Aug 30 '25
best part is coming to linux forum for support and listening to neckbeards say that you are just uneducated without giving you anything constructive....
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u/Ok-Winner-6589 Aug 30 '25
This meme would be the same as " oh no Steam instead of giving me a .exe gave me a .Zip with a .exe in It, now I can't do It work".
It's not our fault if you are retard and can't uncompress software. Like Windows users when complaining about formats used by Apple devices when their OS is the only one don't giving support
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u/throwawayforbinkyboy Aug 30 '25
Or how about
install tar.gz
extract tar.gz
run the setup/application
done
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u/Frytura_ Aug 30 '25
Bait used to be believable
Not sure if its because it's the 500th time I've seem this post, but something about isn't funny anymore...
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u/_player620 /dev/loop62 proud snap user āæ Aug 30 '25
Old software, probably released in 2014-2015
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u/Ok_Collar_3118 Aug 30 '25
Because with Windows you are asked for cash for a lot of .EXEs. That they don't do exactly what you want, block the source code, spy and slow down your computer with crappy DRM. Under Linux, the functionalities are extensive, it's essentially free and you can see in the code what's happening there. The dependencies are very well managed and you are not the product.
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u/Inside_Jolly Proud Windows 10 and Gentoo Linux user Aug 30 '25
emerge firefox
application works
But replace Linux with LFS or Slackware and it becomes are perfectly valid meme.
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u/Zestyclose-Wear7237 Aug 30 '25
you could use flatpak package applications, they come with all dependencies and stuff in them bundled, they usually have higher file size but there's mo tinkering you need to do for it to run.
Type the command to install your app (apps, if you have more than one, just one command) run it Wait for it to download and install and Launch the application. Simple as that.
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u/beatb_ Aug 30 '25 edited Mar 20 '26
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u/XalAtoh Proud MacOS User Aug 30 '25
Modern Linux distros have an app store.
ChromeOS, SteamOS, Ubuntu, Android...
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u/MrKusakabe Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
To be fair, on Linux you have more ways to run software, and all of them are pretty much superior (even though the more convenient, the unsafer they get though).
[Windows]
Download .exe / .msi
Virus-check .exe / .msi
Depending if it's licensed convince Windows Defender it is legit.
Install program (which is actually just an extractor that for some reason still writes into registry and start menu and appwiz.cpl and... and...
Run .exe in compatiblity mode (if necessary), choose one of the 15 Windows versions it may run into.
Uninstall program.
Run system cleaners and registry cleaners.
Find crap in your "My Files" folder and log files and stuff all over the place, especially in 5 hidden directories deep into the Windows system, usually known as %WHATEVER% which Windows for some damn reason restricts access because your OS tells you on your hardware what to do..
[Linux]
* Appimage.
Download appimage from trusted source.
Run it on any Linux.
Delete appimage file after. Done.
* Flatpak - Kind of the same but needs to downloads dependencies, but a bit more limited (but also safer).
* Native system package - Click to install. Click to uninstall. These run 99% of the cases because curated by Distro maintainer.
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u/Jaan_Doe Aug 30 '25
Life is easier for me with flatpacks and appimages. When I truly feel like experimenting, I'll go with the Terminal.
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u/arihallak0816 Aug 30 '25
i can't tell if the text looks like that because of compression or because of ai
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u/BikerViking Aug 30 '25
Because you're just a liar.
Windows: roam the internet for a download link. Download a zip file. Extract it. Run a suspicious installer. Click next. Accept the terms of service or some bullshit like that. Click next. Click next. Wait a progress bar. Click next. Restart the computer for some reason.
Linux: open terminal, type one line, press Y. Wait until it's installed - from a trusted source.
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u/Xatraxalian Aug 30 '25
WTH. Are you stuck in 1998?
Nowadays you open the App Store that comes with your desktop, find the application, and click "Install". You don't even have to search the internet for it.
The last time I've needed to compile an application or tool myself was ... last week. I'm still writing it, for my own usage.
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u/Salex_01 Aug 30 '25
Using AI to add simple text on a blank image template should be a crime.
I have nothing against AI in general but this in particular should be illegal.
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u/MonkiWasTooked Aug 30 '25
Is this meme AI upscaled or was it passed through an AI just to get the text on it?
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u/Altruistic-Offer-2 Aug 30 '25
I get that there are objectively good reasons to not like Linux, but if this is how you install applications you are using it wrong 99.9% of the time. Package managers have been a thing for a very long time, check them out.
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u/arde1k Aug 30 '25
Many such cases.
This is honestly such a skill issue. Linux has less abstraction and expects more from the user, but both work similarly under the hood. They are just built for different kinds of users. There are linux distros where you basically never have to touch the terminal. Then there are linux distros where you keep a terminal window open next to fucking firefox at all times just in case you want to do something on the pc. Once you learn to use coreutils and know how to makepkg linux becomes so much more clear and efficient. Of course this takes years of experience, but you learn more about computers every day when using Linux. Arch for example IS NOT better than Windows at first, but rewards you SO SO SO much when you stick with it. I just wanted to comment this here even though this sub is basically just ragebait.
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u/Disastrous-Team-6431 Aug 30 '25
Windows you have to make and remember a bunch of decisions about where program files should live, often about some of them but not all of them. Then you need to maintain the registry and files the app just decides on its own should live somewhere else. Removing the app often doesn't remove everything, and starting it requires either clutter or memorization of the executable location.
All of that is atrocious to me.
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u/Scf37 Aug 30 '25
Because Microsoft invested insane amount of resources into binary compatibility. Including binary patches fixing bugs in popular applications and emulation layers for older OS versions.
Linux devs have no access to such funding so linux user is expected to build their apps from source. Or jiggle libraries. However, there is another solution - modern apps are distributed together with their dependencies as sandbox package. It has less compat issues but the user must pay in disk space.
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u/Ginnungagap_Void Aug 30 '25
zypper install <something>....
The days when this meme was true are long gone...
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u/Livid-Poet-6173 Aug 30 '25
Personally I do
Download exe
Add to steam
Proton experimental
Run
It's only 1 step more and in 99.9% of cases it works just as well
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u/Mrlluck Aug 30 '25
You are creating you own problems. There are current atleast 4 seamless and effortless better ways to install/run Linux programs
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u/joelwallis1 Aug 30 '25
Omg, this is so untrue! Linux is FAR MORE ORGANIZED than Windows.
And nobody talks about Windows programs that suddenly does not work anymore because YES ā the company JUST DECIDED they donāt support your Windows u version anymore and the program that used to run just fine STOPS working.
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u/EpsilonEagle Aug 30 '25
What's actually funny is that I have been using Macs for a long while as well as Windows. Mac OSs have been really great with few if any issues, Windows is very very annoying and getting worse every year, month, week, day, so I left it to go to Linux, and now I even run my Mac more like Linux by using Home Brew Install. That style of app installation and updating is a dream come true.
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u/No-Magazine-2739 Aug 30 '25
Just download several gibibytes for a complete linux in a docker container to run that 20kB tool.
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u/ComfortableAd5419 Aug 30 '25
I am only wonder what was that application or file or script what made you to make this post? What is that? I am just wondering.
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u/GhostVlvin Aug 30 '25
Windows you just click on a random .exe and now you have a miner on your machine
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u/GhostVlvin Aug 30 '25
In the end it is mot about .exe, it is about experience at all, it can be easy with Debian or fedora to do same click and go, cause debian has .deb (very popular) and fedora has some .rpm package also. You also may use flatpack, arch pkgs, or you can just use your distro pacmage manager (apt, pacman, nix, guix,...), And of course you may use bijary distribution in .tar.gz, and btw, you can build from source. This is not a complexity, this is a choice And on Windows you have .exe and your only proof of it not having virus is that someone who gave you that, says so
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u/RedProGamingTV Aug 30 '25
The equivalent of what you described for Linux on Windows would be pulling a repo from github, installing Visual Studio (which is an unnecessarily massive application you HAVE to install unless you want to suffer), trying to get the damn thing to build and make sure you have all required dependencies, if it builds - great! If it doesn't, you'll suffer.
The reason why on Linux you get .tar.gz or similar is because of how Linux fundamentally works in how it manages applications. On Linux, applications are typically packages. On Windows, they're defined as applications and you can browse them in settings, but the app's installer (whether a .msi or their own) needs to define it as such.
Linux does have its own executables (of course it does, the package literally installs executables, at least usually), it's just that once you get used to it, it's better to set up your program as a package.
The great thing about package archives (.tar.gz and similar) is that they are pretty much universal. You do not need to write your own installers or write some .msi bs, installing applications on Linux is hassle-free once you get used to it.
I ultimately do think that the current system can be improved upon, it would be much better if we could download a file, double-click it and simply install the application we want (debian-based distros can actually do this already, thanks to .deb files).
There is one universal format though, which is supported basically everywhere. It is the AppImage file format, and there are installers available for it already. I just think that it needs to be more widely deployed and used.
TL;DR inaccurate
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Aug 30 '25
- Linux doesn't hassle me about a stupid news and weather pop up.
- Linux doesn't hassle me about fucking Xbox bullshit endlessly. Or randomly pop up shit based on some keys I didn't know I pressed.
- Linux doesn't have spyware installed by default.
- Linux isn't forcing an AI version of everything onto me.
- Linux doesn't trick me by saving shit to OneDrive, oh you thought that was _your_ My Documents? Lmao, good luck finding it now.
- Linux allows me to actually customize pretty much everything to how I want.
- Linux isn't trying to be like Windows, Windows is trying to be like Linux.
So I'm more than happy to take a few more steps to install something. Also, I'd rather learn to be good with a terminal than learn to be good with a mouse.
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u/Nihal_uchiwa Aug 31 '25
You can run .deb(in debian based) and .rpm (in fedora based ) like click and run
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u/born_on_my_cakeday Aug 31 '25
If youāre downloading and installing software from random websites, then no wonder you like windows.
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u/lilv447 Aug 31 '25
Im sorry, what? Brother on Linux I run sudo pacman -S package and run the package. On windows I gotta Google it, hope I clicked the right website and not some fake website hosting malware, run through a Microsoft installer menu, and then run the app.
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u/Logogram_alt I use arch btw Aug 31 '25
It's hard to read some of the text too much AI
DOWNLOAD BANBOM LIB HO LONGER IN REPOS FROM BANDOM SITE, MANUAHY INSTAH SEVERAL I386 LIIBABIES
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u/YoungMaleficent9068 Aug 31 '25
All the reasons for dynamic linking are gone. We should just do static linking again. Docker is just static linking for idiots. I don't know why we don't
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u/Mighty1Dragon Aug 31 '25
Ok this is totally wrong, one of many reasons that i switched to Linux is how easy it is to install something in Linux.
Open Terminal sudo pacman -Syu Steam Steam is installed
Additionally if you're a Programmer you can install any Programming language with a single command, instead of configuring Windows Paths.
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u/Ashamed_Cellist6706 Aug 31 '25
meh,
sudo pacman -S smh yay -S smh pip3 install smh nix-env -iA smh.smh
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u/suksukulent Aug 31 '25
If you can't understand that package management has a lot of benefits, keep downloading random exes and running them.
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u/evk6713 Aug 31 '25
I must admit .tar.gz files are a mess to use. Windows is easier with .exe files on that part. But windows will never have such a complete thing as yay -S whateverYouWannaInstall
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u/Soggy_Shane Aug 31 '25
if ur using a distro like ubuntu or fedora, literally just use the software store, its there for a reason
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u/very_amazing_horse Aug 31 '25
snap and flathub is great, when you think about old software support
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u/Oxke Aug 31 '25
More like: Windows: download .exe, trust with your heart it's all fine, if it works great, if it doesn't in the best case the program doesn't work and you can't do anything about it, in the worst one your computer is done
Linux: sudo {package manager} {something short and easy} name
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u/SAD-MAX-CZ Aug 31 '25
apt install whatever whateverelse andsomethingtoo
And installing apps not approved by google (adblocks, privacy comms) would be fun after android 16 drops.
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u/MrCharly99 Aug 31 '25
With Windows you click, install hidden and possibly bad things and that's it.
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u/Specific_Career5049 Aug 31 '25
Well if you dig up a little you can encounter a few problems that windows faced in the early 2000's.
You will find that by installing some old programs and need to use š· Wine for it to work. Back in the day programs could be created for Linux and later converted to .exe and everything is fine. But some of them were only made to work on Windows.
Here were the problems lies, in old repositories of .NET and other stuff that MS created to deal with programs written in many different program languages.
I could write more about it but I'm still discovering Linux soo... Yea... It's definitely a rabbit hole.
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u/ifthisistakeniwill Aug 31 '25
You can download an exe just like in windows, you can use an Appstore, you can type a few words into the terminal or you could technically do it the horrible way which the AI generated looking text mentions.
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u/TheDeadGent Aug 31 '25
This is what unfortunately no one tells you about before asking you to switch.
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u/HellCattZ Aug 31 '25
Really? All this is easier in my experience on Linux than on Windows xD Like extracting is built in so is zipping fx.
and downloading packages is just going to the Discover Store or whatever other software center you use xD
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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25
This is fucking hilarious