This is the kind of dark pattern that trains Windows users trying to switch to Linux to do dumb things like blowing straight through a
You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
prompt.
It is wild that people will say that using
apt
to install things is too hard, but then suggest a registry edit to remove Bing from seach. Windows just isn’t as casual user friendly as it pretends to.Honestly, with Flatpak and immutable base systems this is a place Linux is really excelling now too. Being able to show a novice user a shared package manager with a search and a bunch of common apps and them actually install/remove them in a safe manner with a high likelihood they’ll work out of the box (since they come with all their deps in sync independent from distro) is kinda huge.
It’s a pretty mixed bag honestly. Sure there are some apps that we get in a mammoth poorly made appimage we’d probably have to have run in wine before or some terrifying statically compiled program embedded in a run script and that’s probably a win.
The trade-off is every developer being their own distro maintainer, 100s of gigs of duplicate dependencies, broken containers with missing libraries, leaky requirements on the underlying system, and everyone needs to be a security expert to understand all the options in flatseal to expose the right features.
Also, instead of one distro source, I’ve got at least 3 and I’ve in the last week had to install programs from multiple sources trying to get a functioning version. This feels like the norm rather than an exception.
Also this week had an app image broken by a requirement on a removed system library outside the app and a flatpak missing a key library forcing me to dig up an old .deb version. The later I lost like 6hrs on because clearly libusb was installed on the system but I didn’t realize I’d installed the flatpak and in wasn’t in the container. Such fun.
So it’s not really all sunshine and rainbows yet.
Fwiw, this is not an endorsement of Windows. I strongly believe if most people spent half the time they spent fighting Windows learning Linux they’d never go back.
Don’t really need sandboxed software for that. Ubuntu comes with their own software store and even if you only select deb, you just klick on install and you’re done
Even good ol’ Debian has that, using either GNOME Software or KDE Discover for managing software.
I’d even add that now 99% of the distro have a gui over the package manager. Have an android or iPhone? You already have experience in installing stuff in an easier way than windows
Unless you want to install older apps on modern Android. Then you need ADB.
adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block app_filename.apk
Tried a few of those once, only one worked and mfker installed itself in the next update. Uninstalling Windows was easy af tho.
thank god
I got a free iMac recently and immediately tried to install some software on it and was told “we don’t recognize this so you can’t install it”. Like excuse me WTF?
You have to hit ctrl on the keyboard while you click to bypass it. Apple Support Article
I’m sure there are workarounds. That’s besides the point.
If they had said “we don’t recommend you install this” that would be completely fine and understandable. But that’s not what happened. I wasn’t presented with any option to bypass it. I was just told no. I shouldn’t have to Google how to do that. It’s completely absurd.
Fun fact: it also won’t let me turn off Bluetooth. How fucking batshit is that?
I so often can’t stand e.g. important privacy toggles being hidden deep in settings, dark patterns that obfuscate permitted but unprofitable behavior - so you’d think I’d be with you on this 100%.
And yet…
If they had said “we don’t recommend you install this”
, grandma would hit OK without reading it.
For every dollar someone has paid tech support to help them install a desired app from an unidentified developer, I’d bet ten dollars have been saved from others not being able to install some spyware. Maybe that murky little dialogue box is good enough for the lowest common denominators that it outweighs the annoyance for us nerds? (Our small cost being we’re required to Searx once for the solution to learn how to bypass it)
grandma would hit OK without reading it.
Then grandma would be responsible.
I don’t buy it. Because Apple has lied about this sort of thing time and time again. Giving us bullshit explanations about why they won’t let us control “our” devices. “Security”, over and over again they use this bullshit to explain away all kinds of self-serving shitfuckery. I’m certain it has far more to do with their 30% app store fees.
And it’s not going to work because the Command Prompt was not opened as Administrator.
Microsoft® sudo™
oh how the turns have tabled
So I was going to go find the Download link for the Linux version of Edge to post as a joke, right?
So I googled (actually duckduckgo’d) “microsoft edge” and clicked one of the first couple of links that looked like it was probably the right place to go.
And was presented with this modal:
I’m visiting that page from Firefox in Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Admittedly I’m running a user agent switcher because otherwise I get the mobile version of a lot of sites, but it’s still funny to me. I like being able to say “the fuck it is.”
I need to know what user agent you are using before I can make a proper assessment. “Haha Microsoft thinks my Linux computer has edge installed”, if you present it outward as a Windows pc, isn’t really fair.
This is like the old PHP database escape functions. Just pass the simple command line parameter!
–seriously-for-real-uninstall-omg-no-joke-remove-delete-uninstall-im-cereal-this-time-no-cap-fam
Holy fuck. You just made me realize what rm -fr means.
rm -fr --no-cap
I always read -fr as “for real” when someone writes
rm -fr
instead ofrm -rf
rm -fr -fr
Actually that method in the picture no longer works, but there is a better, though still convoluted, method.
Of course, have fun adding repos and installing better versions of browsers in Linux.
Edit: When I said “better versions”, I was primarily referring to Debian, which installs FF ESR. You have to add repos and install the better FF standard.
yay firefox
Oh wait, that’s what came preinstalled with my distro. No need to run anything.
Yay buggy distro…
No thanks
Nobody who has used linux ever makes memes like this. Nobody who has had enough experiences with windows does either.
I think of things that could be meme templated sometimes when I get annoyed by any hardware or software or both, but I never feel motivated to actually make it. Actually I’ve never made any meme images at all.
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Ah I never tire of defenders of corporate shitfuckery.
Whose computer is it? Mine or Microsoft’s? Did they pay me or did I pay them? Should I also not be concerned about the regular pop-ups begging me to use it?
Did you ever stop and wonder why it is that MS so desperately wants you to use their browser?
Fuck right the fuck off, please.
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