Cethin 7 points a month ago
The reason tutorials are always based on terminal commands is because it's much harder to describe directions for a GUI, and it's also a lot more prone to change. When the command is just a single line, not images or dependencies, that's obviously better.
VieuxQueb 2 points a month ago
I use discover on opensuse tumbleweed. Simple, easy, and I can choose the source from flathub and tumbleweed when both are available.
I did have an issue once but it turned out that it was network related and not my config.
rumschlumpel 30 points a month ago
TBF, on Debian apt install firefox installs firefox-esr, and on Ubuntu it's a placeholder that installs the snap package. Both work and are clearly better than downloading from random websites, but they do come with surprises for unsuspecting users.
spicehoarder 17 points a month ago
Why is Ubuntu even still relevant?
rumschlumpel 20 points a month ago
Inertia?
Axolotl_cpp 2 points a month ago
That's because debian stable need ESR packages to make any sense, on debian unstable (debian Sid) you get the normal package
MonkderVierte 1 point a month ago
winget was literally robbed from appget.
serpineslair 10 points a month ago
Or even: yay firefox
serpineslair 19 points a month ago
No need. Librewolf got added to extra repo. yay librewolf or pacman -S librewolf will do just fine.
eruchitanda 3 points a month ago
yay firefox does yay -Ss firefox.
BurgerBaron 4 points a month ago
CachyOS # pacman -S firefox-wayland-cachy-hg
edit: BTW
IrateAnteater 25 points a month ago
apt install
software
Vs
Search " software "click download, accept security warning, navigate to wherever your default download location is, double click installer, click your way through the installer (make sure do deselect whatever crapware it tries to package along with).
Yup, the Windows way is totally so much easier.
thagoat -2 points a month ago
path: 0 25603772 25604389 25604743 25605133, hotness: undefined, score: -2, children: 16
yay -S firefox
Which is harder to type?
RickyRigatoni 10 points a month ago
So going to mozilla.org then immediately installs firefox?
Axolotl_cpp 2 points a month ago
mmh http://mozilla.org/ IMO
IrateAnteater 2 points a month ago
To be fair, I'm guessing that most people will just type "Firefox" into Google and click the first link
homosapien 2 points a month ago
what do you do with the extra 2 seconds?
punkfungus 11 points a month ago
Not wrong about OP, but also both major desktop environments on linux ship with "app stores" that are friendly to anyone familiar with a phone. So it's still easier installing software on linux than searching for and downloading .msi and .exe files on the internet (and hoping the version of MSI afterburner you found is the real one).
spicehoarder 4 points a month ago
Common users type into chatbots. They can 100% type the install commands. But also using the Bazaar or software center is super easy.
ReCursing 2 points a month ago
I use Octopi generally, though the add/remove software app is prettier. If I have to install software via the command line I always have to double check the syntax. The command like version existing is extremely useful as a fallback though, and most (all?) gui package managers act as wrappers around the command line. So don't dunk on the command line
_stranger_ 2 points a month ago
that's not what devoid means.
Jiral 1 point a month ago
Thinking you have to use the terminal for installing programs can only mean you don't know anything about modern user friendly Linux distros. You manage to install stuff on an iOS or Android phone as well, without downloading random files from random sites and then launching random installers, do you? You can do it thesame way on Linux.
The thing is, if you want to, you can also use the terminal. Many prefer it because you can be faster and the command is not rocket science. Which is fine too. Whatever you prefer.
eruchitanda 1 point a month ago
I disagree.
But still, you need to get the installer somehow.
girsaysdoom 14 points a month ago
Looks like they have a tiling window manager running the 'stat' command on a bunch of kernel files on the left, then a bunch of smaller window tiles having random stuff like garbled text, a resource monitor, and gnucharmap?
FreddiesLantern 4 points a month ago
DOWNLOAD THE SERVER ON A DVD!
RogueBanana 3 points a month ago
Damn, this repo is tough to fetch from. I will take the left side of the keyboard and you take the right.
leftzero 20 points a month ago
Add programs.firefox.enable = true; to configuration.nix.
Call sudo nixos-rebuild switch. Maybe add --flake if you're feeling adventurous.
Done.
Or, more realistically...
programs = {
firefox = {
enable = true;
# Configure anything you want here (language,
# extensions, policies... whatever).
};
# Enable and configure other programs here.
};
... and keep the whole thing in a git repository to track changes and have it available for other machines.
ttayh 3 points a month ago
dude, don't try to sell me on an easy to configure distro, I'm just finishing up on the configs for my debian home server/sometimes workstation. Definitely don't do it, don't send me down the rabbit hole of reproducebility
leftzero 2 points a month ago
As a programmer, the moment I learned about nixos (here on lemmy, if I recall correctly) I knew that'd be the one I'd pick once I found the time to move to linux. It just seemed like a reasonable way of doing things, you know?
Bit of a learning curve, but worth it, I believe.
MonkderVierte 2 points a month ago
Lol, yay firefox-esr.
And optionally ln -s /usr/sbin/firefox-esr ~/bin/webbrowser.
MonkderVierte 2 points a month ago
Or the display manager is a bitch with your custom $XAUTHORITY place (looking at you, Lightdm).
Hond 15 points a month ago
i think i never even used a terminal to install a browser and i dabbled with linux on and off for over a decade now. there was always a gui to install a browser. well, not on arch in 2014 but back then i never made it past a half broken desktop enviroment. so my point still stands technically.
RickyRigatoni 13 points a month ago
What distros are ya'll using that firefox isn't installed by default?
KernelTale 2 points a month ago
When I used to be on windows it was a bit of pain to install Firefox via WSL2. I probably had to install like X11 while at it. I also installed modded Minecraft. It ran fabulously at 2 FPS v 1.4.7
yardratianSoma 1 point a month ago
minimal arch install
MonkderVierte 7 points a month ago
The installing, not the webbrowser.
germanatlas 6 points a month ago
There are several gui applications for your package manager you can use to install various browsers.
This ironically fits more to windows users trying to uninstall edge
qyron 6 points a month ago
High-jacking the thread a bit.
As anyone tried Midori recently. I remembered about it this past weekend and when searching I was impressed with the project page.
Installed it on my phone and my computer.
On Android it is not ready yet. Maybe for tablets. The browser did not resize to fit the screen. It also felt heavy. Removed after a few tentative uses.
On PC, the same feeling of being heavy, slow moving. It took a long time to open and start navigating. My computer is not new but it carries itself well enough to start FF in a few seconds.
wopalopa 3 points a month ago
im the most tech savvy in my household. compared to general people, im still a normie.
my personal pc is linux based and whenever someone asked to use my pc for general purpose i have to do the terminal dance. now for some of you that may be easy but for me it's annoying. not to mention that i have goldfish memory so i have to duckduckgo which dependancy i need, troubleshooting and look for dependancy just to make my vlc support certain kind of media or connecting apple device to the pc.
im planning to distro hop to an easier one but im dreading to do the terminal dance all over again.
worth mentioning, my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it. my steam streaming also outputting blank screen. i just dont have the urge and will to fix it
Bluewing 2 points a month ago
Don't feel bad. I've been running some distro since Y2K was a fear. And I still often need to search commands. (Shhhhh! Don't tell anyone but I have even used ChatGPT a few times also. To my secret shame). But I am wary of what I see and while I don't always remember the proper syntax all the the time, I do know when the answer is right when I see it.
If anything, it shows that you are a person that is willing to get your hands dirty to fix your own problems before you start asking random people to solve your problem for you. You will become the master yet.
And Kudos to Ephera for stepping up and helping a fellow user!
Ephera 1 point a month ago
my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it.
Unusable as in nothing at all happens, or do they do things like volume up/down when you press them?
If the latter, there may be an "FnLock" key combination you have to press. Usually, it's something like Fn+Esc. Or Fn + whatever key has a lock symbol or "FnLock" written on it...
wopalopa 3 points a month ago
its the latter. the fn thing doesnt work as the fn key doesnt register input. my initial asumption is that because my kb is on apple format and i couldnt change it to windows because it requires me to press the fn key (iqunix f96)
Ephera 4 points a month ago
This sounds exactly like your problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796
It's quite a lot of detailed technology talk, which I don't expect you to understand. The main takeaway should be this:
So the problem is [temporarily] solved by running:
rmmod hid_apple
This command unloads a driver that's potentially interfering here. The driver will be loaded again on next reboot.
Which is useful, because you can just try it out and if it doesn't work (or if it breaks something), you can just do a reboot and everything is back to normal.
You will need admin/root permissions to run this command, so the real command you need to run is: sudo rmmod hid_apple
It will ask you for your login password to confirm running the command.
If that does fix it, then we can look into making it permanent.
punkfungus 1 point a month ago
That just sounds like your keyboard is broken. Your keyboard switching its own functions does not involve the OS
Ephera 3 points a month ago
That would have also been my intuition, but apparently the driver is involved. At least, unloading the driver solved it in this case: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796
mcmodknower 3 points a month ago
That's not installing Firefox, that's https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
UnfortunateShort 2 points a month ago
yay -S librewolf done
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