• Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    533·
    8 months ago

    In my own case I’d put it down to Flatpak etc. finally resolving the software installation problem.

    Installing most Linux OSes has been easy enough for decades, but a program not in your distro’s repos could be a nightmare to get working.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      651·
      8 months ago

      “./configure”

      “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found”

      downloads tarball

      “tar –xvzf libblahblah1.0.0-2.tar.gz”

      “./configure”

      “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 depends on libgofuckyourself.2.0.0”

      downloads tarball

      “tar -xvzf libgofuckyourself.2.0.0.tar.gz”

      “./configure”

      “error: libblahblah1.0.0-2 not found”

      🤯😡🤬

      Can you imagine we did this shit over dialup too? I was there. In the dark times.

      • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
        10·
        8 months ago

        I was there in darker times, with a modem that had no Linux driver, so no connection at all, learning from printouts from the library.

        I may have PTSD from it.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
        41·
        8 months ago

        New users don’t need to know nor care about Flatpak. They just go to the app store, install the niche app on their niche distro without any hassle.