Op-ed: PC makers used to need to bring their own add-on bloatware—no longer.
  • msage@programming.devEnglish
    3819·
    1 year ago

    Yes, let’s fucking download software from a GitHub repo!

    And then removed how Linux isn’t user friendly, because you… might have to download software from a GitHub repo?

      • gornius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        166·
        1 year ago

        Dafuq are you talking about? I’ve downloaded many random shit from Github on Windows to restore some basic UX functionality on W11, while I have never downloaded any software from Github repo on Linux, because everything I need is either on Ubuntu repo or some ppa or - shockingly - is built-in DE. And I’m a programmer and Linux is my daily driver.

          • ramjambamalam@lemmy.caEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            being required to use github so that your latest software purchase can run on your system

            I don’t know what this is referring to.

            • hardcoreufo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              1 year ago

              Maybe proton-ge but again that’s entirely optional. They’re just grasping at straws trying to defend their abusive OS.

          • expr@programming.devEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            What the fuck are you talking about? No one downloads software from GitHub on Linux unless they’re doing some really fringe, custom shit. Linux users detest randomly downloaded software from the internet (which is effectively the ONLY way of getting software on Windows, btw). We want all software to be managed by our package managers.

            Also, lol on “software purchase”. What software are you buying on Linux?