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A bit of an elitist gatekeeper, are we?
It’s a screenshot of a post by someone that fits that description. The OP here tried to show that but it isn’t clear.
The original post is a perfectly humorous meme on the idea that “maybe enabling users doing things via gui isn’t a horrible idea”.
Posting a screenshot of someone else’s post, with a clearly negative note, in hopes of provoking… What? A hateful echo chamber around it?
There’s nothing funny here. It essentially just boils down to “look at how dumb this reasonable opinion exaggerated for comedic effect is” which is little more than toxic slander looking for validation.
Average redditor who didn’t grow up to understand that opinions exist:
sudo emerge app-misc/i-love-gentoo
But it’s correct. It’s time to move on.
Being real, why DON’T distros just have the ability to do the installation if you double-click whatever file is downloaded?
I feel like we should have either option - download and double-click or just use the command line.
I mean, what else would double-clicking a .tar.gz file or an appimage do than install it (yes, I know, look into the archive, but really - how often is that the desired thing to do)? So, therefore, why don’t we just have it install the files that are downloaded?
This is a legit question btw, I really don’t know the answer
How would the distro tell if the tar.gz is a program or just a bunch of compressed files? I tend to use tar files for compression rather than for distributing or installing software
Do you not know what a tar.gz is? it’s like a zip file. how are you supposed to install it automatically? the structure inside is unknown.
also, it’s commonly used for things like backups.
double click exe file
10 page wizard, with malware boxed checked by default
I personally hate it when software has ‘linux support’ as one out-of-date .deb file and a .tar.gz
