2y ago

They’re in no position to complain

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Honestly I'd love for more Linux-only apps to be available on Windows, so, when I'm forced to use it, I can still get the same awesome libre apps I'm enjoying on Linux.
Despite that, I still haven't had the balls to open a single issue anywhere to support Windows 👀
- Just use WSL
  
  Real winners download the source code and compile it from scratch to flex on proprietary software users
  
  it requires admin permissions... and on the only place where i'm forced to use windows i don't have those
  
  I'd rather die.
  
  Are there any simple instructions. I swear everything is seen just goes over my head.
  
  True, but it doesn't work for some apps in my experience
- Huh? Libre is available on Windows.
  
  libre as in free (speech)
  
  Libre what? If you were thinking LibreOffice, I wasn't referring to that
- Give me ls on the cmd for fuck sake.
  
  Works well on windows 10+ in powershell
  
  UUTILS
Can't think of any applications that I use in Linux that aren't available on Windows.
- A lot of terminal apps tend to skip windows, ungoogled chromium doesn’t have a official windows release
- A lot of open source projects do have windows versions, and the big projects that come to mind like blender or Firefox definitely do… but there’s a a lot of little pieces of software that don’t. One example that comes to mind for me is the Dino XMPP client… Linux only for now, unfortunately!
  
  Interesting. Are you able to install through WSL?
- Emacs is a rough experience for one.
  A lot of ML stuff does not, e.g. Microsoft DeepSpeed.
  Lots and lots of CLI programs as well.
- Guitarix was one of those for me. I know there are better virtual amps on windows but I quite enjoyed guitarix for its open and free nature. Plus audio routing on windows is a nightmare.
  
  Guitarx is rad. Had no idea it didn't work in Windows.
- Sayonara music player
  Best local music player in my opinion 🎶
Well, they can compile, usually it's under MIT, AGPL etc
- Windows users have never heard that word before. Compile? Whats that? An app?
There was a time when the Freezer devs didn't make a windows version of some updates, and their solution was to use it via WSL. So I never used it again.
- It’s not their responsibility to make a proprietary shithole os easier to use
I do not understand the meme. Do you mean complaining about absent system requirements?
- Windows users complaining that a Linux (or at a stretch, even Mac) app doesn't have a Windows version.
I remember having issues with Wireshark on Windows since it doesn't include a lot of libs that it can use to monitor traffic. Does that count on the list?
People telling you "I would like to use a Mac so much but I need Windows". Well fuck you Tiffany I dont care

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