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Hey, get your Gentoo propaganda out of here.
Ah the Linux help desk where you get helpful directions like "You have a problem with your dual monitor setup in your naively installed Ubuntu setup? Have you considered installing a rust micro kernel from an abandoned GitHub repo? After cherry picking some patches from a mailinglist? Also boon plep Ubuntu looser."
I hate modern AI, but that is what we need it for. Maintaining old code bases, and not turning it into a text editor/AI API (unless that was the original intention).
Edit: I have to add more words. Maintaining code bases includes compling and testing the code on a variety of hardware. Running tests against that code. Responding to questions. It is a massive amount of work.
Yeah Support is horrible work, I don't maintain anything, but I ask stupid questions, which I don't know are stupid until I get the answer and than die of shame.
I don't know if AI can fix that and most maintainers I had to ask for help were really helpful and friendly, but maintainance like keeping software compatible with used libraries, helping users and such is invisible work.
I don't care for this mentality. I understand constant questions must get old for developers/contributors but the mentality that people should compile from the source is not conducive to growing FOSS. It is, however, potentially conducive to laziness from the devs. "Eh, why should I spend time releasing compiled builds? Let the plebs compile themselves."
Devs don't usually package for specific distros unless it's a generic format like Appimage that can just be downloaded. Distro maintainers need to get it into the format their package manager uses and update the list to make it available.
Why even use releases? Everyone can build everything for themselves. 'Normal Users' are just lazy, everyone wants to know how every piece of software is built for their system, it's not like they have other stuff to do.
I thought that was what Gentoo was doing, but they have far more binary packages nowadays than I thought they'd ever get.
Which you still need to specifically specify. By default everything still has to be compiled.
Dependencies:
Old ass library version from 2004
apt/dnf/pacman: package not found
library package was last available 15 years ago before it was dropped to move to the next legacy version
App package was available right up until last year until it was dropped for development inactivity
Absolutely no one has a compiled version of old ass library
Attempting to compile old ass library results in 30 other old ass package dependencies
How in the actual world was the maintainer compiling this up to last year
It worked on their machine
They have old/orphaned dependencies on their machine. It's hanging on a by thread. They have no idea the packages have disappeared years ago. The house of cards is a bit flip away from collapsing.
Hahah I say this all the time.
Why docker was created be like
Casual Linux things that get normal people running from the os in fear.
Guys I downloaded the github link, and it won't launch as an app, what do? :(
/j
you gotta click on the blue e on your desktop
You guys have stuff on your desktop?
Based arrangement
I prefer to keep my desktop completely empty tho x3
You could add '.exe' at the end. It will definitely not work, but you can still do it for a laugh anyways ;)
Wine: wtf is this shit?
Wine could probably run it
Time for an angry bug report.
Have you tried downloading the AUR? Oh, it's not available in the AUR? What about the flat pack? The package name changed, but it's not available there either. It's an app image, but to get it to work you're going to need to switch your Nvidia drivers to DKMS. OK... So that didn't work, have you tried reinstalling dracut and ffmpeg?
My favourite of course is "just dual boot"
The solution to every issue x3
Dual booting is just using containers on bare metal.
Real
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Now you're just being silly. Everyone knows that Linux is better than Winblow$$$ because all your programs are available from your app store, and can be installed with a few clicks. You never have to go hunting for random downloads again! π
If it's not in the AUR, it doesn't have more than 10 users in the world.
Are you a vibe coder?
I have standards unfortunately
"STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS"
Unless it's a JavaScript app which uses some random build system (that was popular when they started work on the app but is now outdated) that you need to set up and learn.
Or it's a Python app that doesn't work because you don't have the right version of python and backwards compatibility is a myth.
yay
There is a 99% chance it's in there, and there is an 80% chance it uses the latest version/git HEAD
Yay?
yay, a utility to access the AUR, where users share build scripts instead of binaries. It's just one step above curl | sudo sh in terms of security.
Except it automates the steps you'd have to take to inspect and edit the script, if needed. Also, PKGBUILDs are much nicer to read than just plain install scripts. And, of course, it actually builds a package, which is then installed, so it's not only tracked but can be updated like the rest of the system.
To be fair, that's why they said
in terms of security.
I'd say that yay encourages checking the PKGBUILD or its diff more than the average "curl xy | sudo sh" instruction, but considering most people see yay just as yet another package manager, instead of an AUR helper, that's probably true for most people
That's probably the "just one step above" part. You do have the option to inspect the script you're executing before you do so with curl | sh too, if you know what you're doing. If you don't, then you'd be pretty likely to just skip the prompt from yay as well. (Automatic diffs are nice tho.) Note: I use paru instead so I don't know what yay does.
I don't think the aur can switch the delivered script whether you are piping it into sh or not.
Nobody likes to figure out dependencies. And C++ template errors are sometimes completely crazy.
And halfway through the compile, it fails.
There's so much wrong with this question.
- things people 'must' have are usually worthless junk like 'dark mode'.
- updates people want in mainstream can sometimes break compatibility with no "just make it work" switch to disable the breakage. When this isn't a red flag, that makes me sad and worried for the idiot in front of me.
- and then I'm no longer tolerant of the indolent writing error in the sentence.
Really, it's a combination of all three of those things, and more, that prevent the incrementing of the one number in the git project that would invoke the package run and drop a new package in about 2 minutes. It's so hard.