>download a program
>gives me .tar file instead
>developer instruction: compile it yourself
Opencuicks are literally the cancer of the internet. just give me the compiled shit already
Download a program
Jaxson Jackson
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Nathaniel Allen
tru
Luke Ramirez
>brainlet can't compile software
Blake Thompson
this
where the FUCK are my installation wizards those fucking nerds
Cooper Kelly
Just use windows retard
Benjamin Reyes
It's not that I can't. I shouldn't have to.
Joseph Gonzalez
Linux:
>go to terminal
>enter short command with name of program
>downloads and install automatically
everything else:
>attempt to dodge around sketchy websites full of ads and scams and hopefully hit the right download button, go through install wizard that installs extra software you didn't want or even agree to
man linux is so bad and outdated how do people even use it lol
Aiden Turner
>sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake cmake
then
>./configure && make && sudo make install
or
>cmake && make && sudo make install
that's literally all it takes.
Jayden Gray
This is why you have flatpak cancer now
Sebastian Brown
Just use npm. If they're competent, they made it in JavaScript.
Luke Cooper
> How to compile
> "This is a shitty C++ program so it will take at least 5 hours and 64 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of storage to compile it :^)"
Adam Nelson
to a regular computer user that is
23HRH34Y8GH4Y8GNEJFWGNSJNG IDSJFISDFSIUD INSTALL SDFNSIDNFSIDNFINDFISND IBUILD MAKE
NOW LEARN IT FROM MEMORY
Oliver Gonzalez
Imagine being so braindead you can't type 5 characters into a terminal
Michael Hall
>he downloads software from those shady websites instead of the original source
Julian Morris
Except the developer thought it would be cool to use some build system you've never heard of so you have to go install that.
Plus half of the dependencies also need to be compiled and have similar issues.
Kayden Baker
doodoo > mak
Hudson Price
literally only small and obscure tools where the maintainer doesn't bother to make releases or host builds ask you to build their software
"muh linux you must compile everything" is a meme as dead as my grandma
Luis Hall
Actually Linux users have less to worry about with that, most stuff the distro maintainer has already compiled and packaged for you.
Christopher Edwards
>Install from AUR that has compile script ready to go through MAKEPKG
It's not that hard fags
Daniel Thompson
tar -xf file.tar.gz
./configure or cmake .
make
sudo make install
Was that so hard?
Colton Myers
Except that the words have meaning, explain themselves, and aren't gibberish. The absolute state of winfags
Julian Baker
The one truthful post in this thread.
Luke Murphy
./configure --help
Cameron White
Zachary Wright
God, ban every stupid frogposter already.