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TBH that's a feature not a bug. If you don't know what to do here you probably don't know enough to evaluate the safety of the software you just downloaded. You

by usrn 4y ago

TBH that's a feature not a bug. If you don't know what to do here you probably don't know enough to evaluate the safety of the software you just downloaded. Your distro maintainers will pick it up soon and it will show up on your machine the next time you run apt upgrade. Note that no one is stopping you from running thunderbird. It sounds like you downloaded a dynamically linked binary distribution and there's probably just an elf file you need to run. Otherwise if the binary is incompatible you can build it from the source (I've never tried thunderbird, Firefox is a bit much but it's doable and there are of course ways to automate it such as running a Gentoo prefix or using the spec files from your distribution itself.) EDIT: Linux is fine for everyone. Installing bleeding edge software from web sites is not for everyone.

jjj123 4y ago
Sounds like you and the OP agree, that Linux isn’t for everyone?
moralestapia 4y ago
Yeah sure, just don't complain when Linux falls below 1% in market share.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  Who is complaining? I don't often see Linux users complaining that its market share is low, outside of free software ideologues. This seems to be 99% a strawman. I don't care if Linux has 0.00000001% market share as long as it still does what I want.
alexb_ 4y ago
> Note that no one is stopping you from running thunderbird. It sounds like you downloaded a dynamically linked binary distribution and there's probably just an elf file you need to run. Otherwise if the binary is incompatible you can build it from the source (I've never tried thunderbird, Firefox is a bit much but it's doable and there are of course ways to automate it such as running a Gentoo prefix or using the spec files from your distribution itself.) You should put yourself in the mind of someone who doesn't work with computers for a living. Then, read that to yourself again and see how much of it is complete nonsense. You should not have to know what any of those words mean to use an operating system, and if you do that is either the fault of the OS or the software, not the fault of the user.
- usrn 4y ago
  Ok, so I'll go to software center and click a button to install Thunderbird. It won't be the absolute latest version but I don't really care since computers aren't that interesting to me.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  > You should not have to know what any of those words mean to use an operating system Why not? Different OSes can serve people in different niches. This is like saying "you don't need special training to ride a tricycle, therefore the fact that you need it to drive a car is the fault of the car". If people don't want to use Ubuntu, they are free to use macOS. I will continue using Ubuntu because I know how to use it and it works for me. What's the problem?

by usrn 4y ago

jjj123 4y ago

Sounds like you and the OP agree, that Linux isn’t for everyone?

moralestapia 4y ago

Yeah sure, just don't complain when Linux falls below 1% in market share.

School-Cotton 4y ago
Who is complaining? I don't often see Linux users complaining that its market share is low, outside of free software ideologues. This seems to be 99% a strawman. I don't care if Linux has 0.00000001% market share as long as it still does what I want.

alexb_ 4y ago

> Note that no one is stopping you from running thunderbird. It sounds like you downloaded a dynamically linked binary distribution and there's probably just an elf file you need to run. Otherwise if the binary is incompatible you can build it from the source (I've never tried thunderbird, Firefox is a bit much but it's doable and there are of course ways to automate it such as running a Gentoo prefix or using the spec files from your distribution itself.) You should put yourself in the mind of someone who doesn't work with computers for a living. Then, read that to yourself again and see how much of it is complete nonsense. You should not have to know what any of those words mean to use an operating system, and if you do that is either the fault of the OS or the software, not the fault of the user.

usrn 4y ago
Ok, so I'll go to software center and click a button to install Thunderbird. It won't be the absolute latest version but I don't really care since computers aren't that interesting to me.
School-Cotton 4y ago
> You should not have to know what any of those words mean to use an operating system Why not? Different OSes can serve people in different niches. This is like saying "you don't need special training to ride a tricycle, therefore the fact that you need it to drive a car is the fault of the car". If people don't want to use Ubuntu, they are free to use macOS. I will continue using Ubuntu because I know how to use it and it works for me. What's the problem?