• halva@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    have you like

    ever actually tried installing an old app on linux
    or accidentally had a power outage during an update

    it literally can’t update without breaking and can’t install old apps lol

    • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      Can’t you just bury your head in the sand like the rest of us? Linux is literally perfect if you ignore all of its flaws.

    • Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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      18 hours ago

      Yeah I’ve installed heaps of old apps, it depends on dynamic vs static libraries etc but some people still use Emacs 25…

      I have lost power whilst updating, can be a nuisance depending in the distro, but snapshots (zfs and btrfs both work well for me) have been life saving.

      Mac and windows simply don’t have a lot of quality of life features. Working with them is painful. As self a documenting systems they are fantastic though, however, when I was younger we had things called schools that served to address that gap, these have fallen out of favour in modern times.

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        11 hours ago

        it depends on dynamic vs static libraries

        why must the user think about this shit? i can grab a windows app made for XP and run it on 11, and it’ll run perfectly fine, and i don’t have to think about the way its dynamic loader figures it out

        ill have lower chances of running an app made for RHEL8 on RHEL9 than that

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      21 hours ago

      That’s literally just software stuff, not Linux’s fault lmao

      And if it doesn’t affect Linux itself, it’s the developers fault