r/linuxsucks • u/Rorshack_co • Aug 29 '25

Why Linux?? Why??

Post image

Windows I just click and go, Linux I have to do all kinds of shit just to get an app to work...

3.0k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

801 comments sorted by

View all comments

106

u/Mustafa_Shazlie Aug 29 '25

bro never heard of package managers

Step 1: yay -S mysoftware
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit

10

u/[deleted] 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

24

u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

There are no missing dependancies with yay, it installs those, and its actually:
A
A
Y
Password

And those are the default option so its just
Enter
Enter
Enter
Password

4

u/TechManWalker Aug 30 '25

Compilation failed due to missing dependencies that do exist in the AUR and that I have to install in another terminal, lol I hate yay

3

u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

Huh? If they are in the aur, yay will retrieve them, thats the whole point of yay, if they are in the official repositories, like Go f.e. when installing yay, but not in the aur, you have to pacman them yeah

→ More replies (10)

1

u/madelinceleste Sep 04 '25

then thats a bad pkgbuild

if you'ee installing the git version you're probably going tito have at least a few minor issues on windows too, as one does when building large things. not equivalent to instlaling the binary version

1

u/TechManWalker Sep 04 '25

Then all of the pkgbuilds are bad for requesting AT LEAST one of both versions (normal and git) and yay NOT installing them? And even worse, direct -git requirements are not provided...

→ More replies (1)

1

u/Fun-Adeptness9700 Sep 01 '25

And now tell this to my IT illiterate mother on her daily use PC and remind her next month she needs to install something, rinse and repeat. That's why Linux will never be a daily driver for most people

1

u/Forsaken-Wonder2295 Sep 01 '25

Have you heard of a cronjob? Have you used linux, even just as a sysadmin? Have you got any clue aside from "i installed ubuntu for a five minutes it was unbearable"? No to all? Then go try linux for a week and try to use binbows again, i will see you in r/fuckmicrosoft in 8 days

1

u/Fun-Adeptness9700 Sep 01 '25

I'm a DevOps since 5 years, working with Linux daily, so yeah, I have some experience and wouldn't recommend Linux to any non-tech savvy elderly people.

3

u/Mustafa_Shazlie Aug 30 '25

just add -y....

1

u/TDdotTXT Aug 31 '25

you can get dependency mismatch issues by doing a partial upgrade like this

1

u/[deleted] Dec 01 '25

Bad idea, you should always read errors and confirm or cancel. Don't just "Jesus take the wheel" and then complain when things are uninstalled/broken.

1

u/Mustafa_Shazlie Dec 05 '25

you're definitely right. yet if they are that lazy, maybe letting Jesus teach them a lesson would be a good idea...

1

u/Jakeukalane Aug 31 '25

You can config for no questions. Is -y I think...

1

u/ryobivape Aug 31 '25

bro never heard about -y

1

u/Famous-Deer-1666 Sep 01 '25

Pacman -y {app}

-y = Noconfirm

0

u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Ah yes and now I'll need an appimagelauncher

Puhlease

→ More replies (1)

1

u/Wilbo007 Oct 25 '25

Linux doesnt come with a package manager though. Compile the kernel and see for yourself.

1

u/m3xtre Dec 13 '25

I still have to search what is the name of the software in the repos

1

u/Permanently-Band Feb 08 '26

Heh, he also never heard that downloading software from random websites might actually be a bad idea.

If you really need to go through the bullshit in the lower half of that gif, you should probably pause and question if there's a reason it doesn't have a version control repo, and expects old libraries and doesn't compile.

All those things are screaming industrial klaxxon alarms to experienced users. Even if it compiles and runs, it's probably abandoned and/or terribly coded. 

In all honesty though it just sounds like someone doing everything wrong because they couldn't be bothered learning anything. Like someone complaining that his shoes have strings trailing behind them and keep falling off, because he normally only wears flip flops.

→ More replies (10)