JasSmith @ JasSmith @sh.itjust.works

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nix-shell -p radarr

I don't think this works on most distros. Even if it does, isn't this only installing Radarr to a temporary shell? Either way, CLI should never be required to install software. Not if the intent is consumer software. You do appear to make the argument that it's not consumer software, which is fair. It's just different from a lot of other claims about it being consumer software. So you can forgive people for thinking it's meant for regular people. We should definitely make that clearer.

Especially because most users respond to this with “good.”

good.

Your comedic timing is impeccable.

The way I see it the biggest fragmentation is just users expecting things to work like windows, ie navigating to a website, downloading the software and running it.

Usually Linux users just search their package repo. If you want more bleeding edge software, youre expected to understand Debian/Ubuntu repos probably aren’t the place to go.

Like it or not, most users expect to be able to go to a website, download software, and click it to install. It is objectively more intuitive than using a command line, or having users go somewhere else to install software. I don't see the sense in fighting against user preferences. Embrace it. Offer it. Give the users what they want. That's how we grow Linux. There is no reason that "bleeding edge" software needs to be complicated to install and use.

And who’s at fault?

It’s not about blame. From a user’s perspective, it doesn’t matter who is to blame.

Yeah that’s just radarr devs not actually packaging the thing.

It's not about blame. From a user's perspective, it doesn't matter who is to blame. The bottom line is that Linux is harder to use in a lot of scenarios. Torvalds was right: it's going to take Valve to statically link everything and force developers to use the same libraries. Then it's trivially easy for devs to maintain a .elf distribution which can be executed across all Valve-compliant Linux distros.

IMHO, the UX is bad, but the user base is also repellant. It's further left than Reddit so most people who jump in bounce right off. That's going to be difficult to change organically. Especially because most users respond to this with "good." So there's definitely no appetite to appeal to a wider audience. I predict Lemmy will become increasingly ideologically partisan and isolated.

I agree with Linus Torvalds. Linux is too fragmented. This makes consistent software deployment and support expensive and far too varied. Maintaining documentation alone requires an unlimited number of distros. From a user's perspective, I really think Linux needs a universal install method like .exe. No user should ever need to use the CLI install software, no matter their distribution. Radarr, for example, is a very popular home media server application. It is one-click install on Windows. It is fucked on Linux.

The average person does not mount network drives themselves.

NAS is incredibly common these days. Backing up data is mainstream now. Not 100% of laypeople use NAS, of course, but many.

I haven't made the switch yet for the gaming PC because of Apex Legends, Fornite, and Valorant. Also, my Fanatec peripherals don't work with Linux. Also, Nvidia frame gen doesn't currently appear supported.

Block the user and the community and move on with your life, OP. You must have more important things going on than this. Please tell me this isn't the most important thing you have in your life right now.

No one has ever needed to touch grass more than OP.

Right!? This is the most insane, unhinged thing I have read on Lemmy to date. OP spent many hours collecting a dossier to try to ban a user because they had a disagreement about the angle of Elon Musk's hand gestures. This confirms my theory that 90% of Lemmy is cripplingly autistic.

Is this community just popular opinions? Every comment agrees with OP.

It “engaged” 1.5 million players. That includes EA Play and Game Pass, so actual sales are even lower.

I had hoped your question would yield some informative responses because as a normie I am struggling to find a more centrist space here. Every community from technology to memes is wall to wall “DEA TRUMP HITLER!?” I get it, I don’t like him, but surely there are other things to discuss besides that? The users are obsessed with American politics and as a non-American it’s exhausting and I think a little pathetic. Do they have nothing else going on in their lives?

The responses confirmed that the users don’t want opposing opinion and instead really, REALLY want an echo chamber. Message received.

I tried it and the owner calls himself “Deimos” (god) and acts like it. He bans people for any and no reason, including disagreeing with him. I ended up being banned for having an opinion about something he disagreed with.

Thank you! Lemmy is basically unusable right now for those of us not from America. Every community from technology to gaming is wall to wall DAE TRUMP HITLER!? I get it, but some of us just want to talk about our hobbies. There are dedicated communities for discussing politics.

I hope these comments make it clear to you that there's never any off ramp for the "eat the rich" ideology. Once they've eaten the very rich, they go after the next cohort, and the next. It's about pulling everyone down to the lowest level. We have repeatedly demonstrated this many times in many countries over the last century. It always ends in many deaths and fascism. The solution to that is free association, free commerce, and democracy. Individual liberty has plenty of drawbacks, but it's far better than all of the alternatives we have tried.

The judge would immediately shut that down for creative avoidance. This is an order to sell, not break up. The DOJ specifically indicated behavioural remedies in this case, meaning Google must not remain in control of Chrome.

Most male computer uses watch porn and would not want an AI to log that. Many women find porn sickening and don’t understand it and will never understand male urges that result in watching it. The fact that this got into a finished product tells you a lot about Microsoft’s corporate culture.

Excellent point. We saw exactly the same phenomenon play out with Google and Gemini. The tool created racially diverse Nazis. Even a few minutes with the tool revealed major issues. There must have been hundreds of people who witnessed the slow moving train crash in realtime, but were either unwilling or unable to speak out. I think these companies have clearly cultivated a hierarchical culture of fear and intimidation. I recently left a job in which my manager was ex-Google. The stories she would tell were appalling. Her command-and-control style was, frankly, disgusting. She permitted zero critical feedback or discussion. It was her way or "fuck off." I found that very instructive as to how these companies have morphed into shells of their formers selves. I'm not bullish on the future of these companies. They're coasting very well on the fumes of their historical successes, and I think their demise is all but assured.