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"The vast majority" of applications having packages doesn't satisfy my requirement: never ever, for any reason ever, having to use the CLI. The requirement is

"The vast majority" of applications having packages doesn't satisfy my requirement: never ever, for any reason *ever*, having to use the CLI. The requirement is clear, unambiguous, and shared by the vast majority of PC users. For the record, at least in my case, it's certainly not the "vast majority" of applications. The following applications don't have easy to install packages. Even when there is, as in the case of Calibre-Web, Transmission, and NZBGet, they often require CLI configuration and/or intervention. * Readarr * Openbooks * PhotoPrism * Prowlarr * Jackett * FlareSolverr And these are just the applications I could spot in five minutes.

3np 5y ago
Pray tell, what kind of cli configuration/intervention would be required for transmission? You should just be able to install transmission-gtk and be off.
pizza234 5y ago
By "vast majority" I mean that the standard repositories (which optionally includes extra repositories, like the Canonical Partner one) includes hundreds of thousands of programs, and GUIs are provided by the distro (e.g. the former Ubuntu Software Center). I've checked several of the programs you've provided, and here's a report: - Readarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - PhotoPrism: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Prowlarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Openbooks: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Jackett: has native linux binary in the official Github releases - FlareSolverr: has native linux binary in the official Github releases - Transmission: it's commonly provided in the Linux distro repositories Those who refuse to do such a minimal search and/or better look the Github releases page, they definitely deserve to stay on Windows, rather than spreading misinformation. If a program doesn't to have a package for a given platform (no doubt about those cases), it's a developer's resources problem (and essentially, an O/S popularity one). It'd be ridiculous to say that having to manually install a certain program on Mac is inherent in Mac itself.

"The vast majority" of applications having packages doesn't satisfy my requirement: never ever, for any reason *ever*, having to use the CLI. The requirement is

3np 5y ago

Pray tell, what kind of cli configuration/intervention would be required for transmission? You should just be able to install transmission-gtk and be off.

pizza234 5y ago

By "vast majority" I mean that the standard repositories (which optionally includes extra repositories, like the Canonical Partner one) includes hundreds of thousands of programs, and GUIs are provided by the distro (e.g. the former Ubuntu Software Center). I've checked several of the programs you've provided, and here's a report: - Readarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - PhotoPrism: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Prowlarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Openbooks: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub - Jackett: has native linux binary in the official Github releases - FlareSolverr: has native linux binary in the official Github releases - Transmission: it's commonly provided in the Linux distro repositories Those who refuse to do such a minimal search and/or better look the Github releases page, they definitely deserve to stay on Windows, rather than spreading misinformation. If a program doesn't to have a package for a given platform (no doubt about those cases), it's a developer's resources problem (and essentially, an O/S popularity one). It'd be ridiculous to say that having to manually install a certain program on Mac is inherent in Mac itself.