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Linux users install chrome now…?
Well they already had firefox installed it seems
That’s why you don’t need to install another one 😘
Ahem Tor
Tutorials like this that are really simple might be a good way yo introduce the idea that Linux does not need to be difficult or complex.
Chrome is so common and it demonstrates that you can use something familiar on Linux.
Of course. The GUI package manager is the first thing I always show people. I was still just making a joke though
Yup, that’s been my experience with getting people to at least consider Linux as well. The first thing they ask when I tell them it’s a different OS like Mac is, “so can it run XYZ?” Most people don’t actually care and just want something that runs the apps they use.
Interestingly, my mom (a Windows user her whole life) seemed just as alienated by macOS as by Linux. Her work gave her a Mac and she couldn’t understand anything after about a week so she just asked for a Windows system instead.
The problem would be that graphical UIs can look very different. Each distro with all their supported desktops would require documentation. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a short introductory documentation for people who have no clue about linux. Debian claims to be the “universal operating system”, but new users are usually directed towards Mint/Ubuntu/PopOS, but why? There’s a possibility here.
Real Linux users use curl and render the page in their imagination.
Imagination? That’s bloat.
Just use lynx
I grew up with w3m, but I like your style
Nyxt ftw
For a moment I thought you said “LyX” and I was like: you use a LaTeX editor for browsing?
Lynx rules btw 👍
spoke like a true veteran
When I needed to use chrome (ugh) to run a program I just compiled I googled chromium… which didn’t work… so I tried troubleshooting it. But I don’t understand c. Or why it didn’t work I can’t remember what happened next but it took hours.
I have ungooohlef. Chromium now though which is great.
I was confused because yeah… Why is this gif using a GUI?
Literally no Linux user ever…
I typically end up installing chrome for the odd website that does require it. Firefox is still my daily driver on all platforms though, not sure what Mozilla is thinking with their future plans.
You mean Chromium right?
No, Chrome. Specifically for the DRM stuff to access streaming services and casting, things that don’t quite work well with Firefox (by design). I use libre stuff when I can, but I make exceptions, I know not everyone uses Linux that way.
Use a user agent spoof extension on Firefox, should trick the website into thinking it’s running chrome.
Spoof the user-agent using an extension
If I can’t view a website in Firefox, then I probably don’t want to view it anyway. If I really must visit it then I’ll change the user agent…
Their future plans is less firefox, more mozilla, like 2023.
firefox tho
They already have that, as you can see in the clip.
Why are you showing people how to deliberately install spyware?
Chrome? Never! Only firefox. Eventually chromium.
Is there a punchline to this I’m missing?
It’s a parody of stuff like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCRzng7LsQI
nixos users installing a web browser:
For real, I was like… so what the hell?
Maybe it’s making fun of windows users who go through a 3-100 step install wizard?
It’s not making fun of Macs, which IMO has the slickest installs of just dragging.
I’d rather click a button that installed everything to the right place than relying on myself to drag a single thing to a specific folder. Opening a folder first and having to drag is… a drag. That’s my opinion.
Installing on a Mac looks like this.
- Click on the app package you downloaded
- Then verify that you do want to install it by dragging it
Imo it’s very intuitive, clean and clever. No wrong way to do it.
Once you know, it is easy. But this random popup with 0 explanation, besides an arrow, is not intuitive at all. In general I like my MacBook Air but I hate MacOS and if it wasn’t apple silicon itd be running linux. Once Asahi or something similar deals with growing pains, it will 100% be doing so.
UI design of apple truly amazes me. Did Jobs really worked on the design as well
no, no, no its too easy, Wheres the terminals? and the long compile time.
(this post was written partially from and intel compute stick running gentoo, which started compiling 7hours ago and still is)
mmmm tasty 2GB of ram
Noob. Back in my day, I needed 7 (seven) days to compile my custom kernel (1.x without RLL and MFM support) and when I booted it, it often panic’d lol.
- Spend three days downloading and trying it distros
- Pick arch
- Sudo pacman install tmux, htop, {emacs, vim, nvim depending on your alignment}
- Get your tmux and editor configs just right
- Get into an argument on the “Discussion” section of Arch Wiki about your tmux hot keys
- Share your htop screenshots on social media (and by social media I mean
old redditLemmy and your IRC group with the 1 other IRC user who hasn’t left yet) - Pacman install Firefox
Set
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-a"in make.conf and never bother writing --ask againI will half to do that thanks for the tip!!
You can shorten this list of flags to -DuN. For comedic effect you can run
emerge -DuN -DuN -DuuuN @world
Dear god, just yesterday I had to wait pretty much an entire day just for ungoogled-chromium to compile, and I have 8 cores with 16GB of ram. I can’t imagine having to do that with just 2GB of ram with 4 cores.
And that’s the SLOW way!
Exactly
The correct way is:
sudo pacman -S chromium sudo pacman -Rs chromium sudo pacman -S firefox
chrome?
Yeah the mouse just passed over Firefox.
They have that installed already. Likely that is their main browser.
Linux users uninstalling browser: basically same as what the op shows.
21 minutes. Mother of God.
you can install the Malware CCleaner on Malware Windows and uninstall it in a few minutes.
sudo apt install firefox
This guy has super cow powers.
That would be sudo apt install cowsay
I don’t know why so many windows users find it so difficult to install software on linux.
Use the app store like you do on your phone
And yet, they keep opening a browser and searching “how do I install X”.
🤷
how do I install X
Go to joinmastodon(dot)org, pick an open server, then enter your email, a username and a password. easy
Is there a reason you add that silly link at the bottom of your comments?
I think it is the license for his comment.
Well it’s silly and will have no effect.
It didn’t cost you anything, why so upset about it?
Because my life is shit and I have nothing better to do. :(
Consider licensing your comments. It will lighten the mood right away.
how do I install X
emerge xorg-server[redacted]
It’s an analogy to help people understand how easy it is to install stuff on linux (applications, libraries, services, etc.). App stores are just frontends to package managers. Package managers get their packages from package repositories. On linux, there are multiple package repositories and a plethora of package repositories.
On Android (a linux derivative) nearly each manufacturer has their own app store + Google App Store. There are also opensource app stores like the most known one: F-Droid. Which also has a default repository, but others can be easily added.
The iPhone famously only had sideloading and often what was installed was an app store pointing to the cracker’s repository. Starting April 2024, Apple will have to allow installing other app stores (only 15 years after Android) thanks to EU regulation.
Linux allowed all that long before app stores were a thing.Steam, GOG, the Epic Store, and a bunch of “stores” work on the same concept. Do you balk at those too?
Literally Firefox in the dock…
