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Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have to have a computer science degree to install a peice of software.. I just wanna double click the installer icon. I don't want to have to write out some long String in terminal to install software. And sometimes it's different depending on distro.

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most major distributions come with a software center of some kind. And with Flatpaks, AppImages, and gag Snaps, it pretty much is just click and install these days.

[–] ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s wrong with snaps? I’m giving Linux another go so I’m still learning. I’m trying Ubuntu on an ancient iMac right now but I also have Pop!_OS in a vm on my windows pc to play with. I haven’t installed anything on pop but I noticed Ubuntu had snaps.

[–] OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snaps are proprietary to Canonical (Ubuntu). Historically, they were larger, slower to load, and generally slower overall to use With a good SSD and system, I'm not sure that's the case anymore though.

[–] ElusiveClarity@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ohh. Thanks for that info. Proprietary stuff and forced ads are two of the biggest things pushing me away from windows right now so that’s good to know.

[–] Hypnoctopus@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I don't want to have to write out some long String in terminal to install software. "

I'm no expert, but isn't it literally just apt get (name of software) to download and install through terminal?

[–] eltimablo@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been "app store" frontends for most distributions since at least 2012, and packagekit has the same CLI on every major distribution.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Everyone in this thread saying shit like that hasn't tried Linux since 2004

[–] 200cc@lemmy.tedomum.net -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to have a computer science degree to install a peice of software

No you don't, you can search on wikipedia what a computer science degree actually is.

[–] elboyoloco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like it's pretty obvious I was exaggerating. There's just extra steps that I've always had to take. It's never been simple for me. A lot of terminal commands in not familiar with.