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Your average Linux experience. And the second most upvoted comment is someone seriously asking if 2026 if the year of Linux desktop...

Latty 6mo ago
Yeah, because no third party program has ever crashed on any other OS. Come on, this is an absurd comment. Linux has its issues, this is not a serious example of what is keeping normal people from using Linux as a desktop OS. Normal people are not installing the first release of a privacy networking tool that requires you to OK connections.
- aucisson_masque 6mo ago
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  - Latty 6mo ago
    That's not the user experience though, the user experience is it says "go to the discover app and install <program>" and they do that and it just works. Downloading a tarball is not the normal way to install stuff on Linux, and given everyone has phones where the standard is "install on the app store", it's hardly some new experience, in fact, it's more natural for normal users.
  - groguzt 6mo ago
    The take on flatpaks is such an uninformed one. DMGs on MacOS come with all the dependencies bundled in, which make them essentially just as big as the comparable flatpak (minus the shared runtime that gets installed once)
    - eiginn 6mo ago
      Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output. Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.
    - aucisson_masque 6mo ago
      I know the theory but it doesn’t work that way in real life. Files that are 20mb on macOS are GB on flatpaks. Flatpak is eating storage and bandwidth which are both issue for many users.
  - riddley 6mo ago
    Why are you in a thread about Linux software if you hate it so much? Just felt like spreading some negativity?
    - aucisson_masque 6mo ago
      I find it interesting. Linux is very interesting and yes I think it’s fine to say that Linux has many shortcomings and can be extremely buggy. Do you have to be 100% positive about everything you like ?
adammarples 6mo ago
This is brand new open source software with like 3 stars on github

Latty 6mo ago

Yeah, because no third party program has ever crashed on any other OS. Come on, this is an absurd comment. Linux has its issues, this is not a serious example of what is keeping normal people from using Linux as a desktop OS. Normal people are not installing the first release of a privacy networking tool that requires you to OK connections.

aucisson_masque 6mo ago
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- Latty 6mo ago
  That's not the user experience though, the user experience is it says "go to the discover app and install <program>" and they do that and it just works. Downloading a tarball is not the normal way to install stuff on Linux, and given everyone has phones where the standard is "install on the app store", it's hardly some new experience, in fact, it's more natural for normal users.
- groguzt 6mo ago
  The take on flatpaks is such an uninformed one. DMGs on MacOS come with all the dependencies bundled in, which make them essentially just as big as the comparable flatpak (minus the shared runtime that gets installed once)
  - eiginn 6mo ago
    Seriously, the amount flatpak misinformation that people hold onto is absolutely wild. Ex: I have had to show people it does differential updates because they don't bother to read the output. Flatpaks are easily the best gui desktop app experience for users we have today.
  - aucisson_masque 6mo ago
    I know the theory but it doesn’t work that way in real life. Files that are 20mb on macOS are GB on flatpaks. Flatpak is eating storage and bandwidth which are both issue for many users.
- riddley 6mo ago
  Why are you in a thread about Linux software if you hate it so much? Just felt like spreading some negativity?
  - aucisson_masque 6mo ago
    I find it interesting. Linux is very interesting and yes I think it’s fine to say that Linux has many shortcomings and can be extremely buggy. Do you have to be 100% positive about everything you like ?

adammarples 6mo ago

This is brand new open source software with like 3 stars on github