How true is this?

Fake and Gay
>Snap
>Flatpak
>Appimage
Choose one and KYS Faggot

you can literally do the whole binary thing 4 different ways on linux, the machine dependency is really only based on your libraries or processor same as windows, and you can get source from a billion different places instead of one single repository, which if you do want to use a repository there are normally a ridiculous amount of mirrors of it to pick from. Honestly tho 2/10 b8 for making me reply

Linux has no substantial issues with installation (unless you are a total brainlet).
The true issue is that it's totally shit at software quality.
Desktop software is utterly shit because 90% of coders waste their time coding YET ANOTHER DESKTOP UI NOBODY FUCKING ASKED FOR.
They should have been working on perfecting wine instead. A perfect wine would kill windows. They have the delusion people will automatically stop compiling for windows. Deam on faggot.
Hell, Torvalds should probably do it kernel side. A perfect wine would kill windows.
Microsoft does it relatively robustly with WSL.

You can clone a local copy of entire repos if you want. But I really doubt the people who claim they REQUIRE offline mode for everything.

100% accurate

I agree, I also dont understand the need for 50 different DEs on linux, I think it has been universally accepted that windows 7 has the best UI there is in any OS, so why not drop 90% of pointless DE development and instead concentrate and pool resources on one DE that will work like windows 7

> wine would kill windows
this is 1000% accurate

I lost my hope on that, that's why I'm following closely React OS, it's like an OS built around Wine's premise: to run Windows binaries under a free libre system. They're having a lot of success lately

Why did you use the kernel logo instead of the operating system logo?

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ah I see you're a man of culture as well

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I am sorry but kde is a complete mess and hardly even comes close to windows 7 tier of usability

If all those faggots that work on coding YET ANOTHER UI NOBODY NEEDS worked on it it would be perfect.
It doesn't have to be KDE. Anything or any 2 or 3.

This.
Based.
Flatpak solved this some time ago.

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If you have repos on DVD ISOs, it's OK.
> software compatibility
Linux is about the source compatibility, not binary. That's why it's not bloated.

based

Linus already addressed that. Moore's law is coming to it's limit and any advances in performance from now on will come mainly from enhancing the code. We're entering the golden era of programing

It's a matter of priorities. Google, Samsung, Tencent and other biggest Linux backers don't really care about DE's and WINE and they would never switch to Windows.
On the other hand, Google Stadia is going to run their games on Linux, I wonder if they'll use WINE or some virtualized Windows.

Linux is a kernel.

GNU is a set of softwares

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Distribution of software as binary blobs is cancer. Source distribution alone solves 99% of security and compatibility issues Windows has to deal with. Repositories solve the problem of keeping software up to date predating various "app stores" by a decade.

It's possible to download portable executables on GNU/Linux. The firefox tarball works like this. Good luck spamming your home folder to death though.

>no equivalent to executables
Nigger you can literally chmod +x anything what are you talking about

Linux is a kernel

holy shit. didn't know she was that stacked.

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People posting NPC memes are in fact NPCs themselves and should be gassed.

This. Literally even text files can be made executable when given a shebang. Try doing that on Windows.

At least with Xubuntu 18.04 (full install, non-free) however, my install survived six months without internet, without issues after installing from a USB. I didn't even have to search for online fixes for my problems with my smartphone with for example, WINE, due to having decent man pages.
Windows 7 it's also extremely stable in this regard, except for having useful help.
Right now I can safely say thay Windows 10 is the only OS that breaks following the on-screen orders, when updating, while updating and after updating. If this piece of shit breaks and you don't have a recovery USB then you've basically bricked your computer.

>lot
ever heard of make? fag

Just download a whole repository and use offline

I've never had the types of dependency issues on windows as I have had on Linux. The ONLY dependency issue i've ever had is needing some Microsoft SDK library for a python program. While on Linux I've had dependency issues with fucking steam

>rename .txt to .bat
>instant executable
that wasnt so hard

This

WINE, while useful, is primarily used to run proprietary closed source programs that are tied to the dying x86 platform.

KDE is kinda a disaster internally so I'm not surprised autists would rather make their own trash fire than work on it.
t. KDE user.

You act like steam is a well ported application on linux.

They cannot be contained!

I don't understand why people don't compile their stuff statically.
You could even attach data to a shellscript that contains an icon and binaries for all major architectures.
It would run everywhere and no Flatpack or something else is needed.

what is .deb? how to download libraries? how to transfer files onto a flashdrive?
There are a million different ways to install programs on linux, it's fucking easy as hell. If windows runs into a compatibility error, you're fucked.

They're indoctrinated with some sort of abstract idealism about everything being independent instead of having things just work.

I don't understand. Linux is a kernel.

Fuck off autist

>stating the truth is now autism
The state of this board.

Static binaries don't just work they have many problems such as needing to recompile every single program just for a single security fix in one library.

He is correct though. "Linux" doesn't have packages or repositories or anything, you need a full distro for that.

Well the claim in the pic by Windows person shows a thorough lack of understanding of Linux so that's accurate

windows doesnt have dependencies. only the occasional missing dll file that can be easily download and put into whatever directy the exe is running out of. try again lintard.

Linux is the colloquial term for "Nearly every GNU/Linux distribution" because nobody wants to fucking type it out. Everybody knows what it means.

>installation wizards
had me going for awhile

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No, Linux is the name of the kernel. Calling a distribution "Linux" is an attempt to create FUD and confusion, as you see OP has already done.

Bickering over the name, which you have done, is irrelevant and offtopic. Everyone knows what "Linux" means except you.

hey lincuck draw a circle

Nice trolling attempt but everybody here knows Linux is simply the name of a kernel made by Linus Torvalds. But on reddit people would maybe fall for that since the userbase is motsly poorly educated normies...

its true

>windows doesnt have dependencies
the windows target audience everyone

Everyone knows that Linux is the kernel made by Linus Torvalds. Everyone also knows that Linux is the commonly-used term for GNU/Linux distributions. Not being able to understand colloquialisms doesn't make you more educated.

Made by some retarded wintard that isn't aware of .deb/.rpm packages and local repository mirrors.

Slackware does not have this problem.

this
gnome: *exists*
other ui developers: haha what if we make something better
*kde*
*xfce*
*cinnamon*
*bloated desktop 28374828*
and none of them work properly

XFCE is better in every way.
KDE at least has multi-threading.
There are a shitload of window managers worth using.

yep, but you see how retarded everyone is trying to hack things from 0.
You should be able to go the website and have a portable zip folder like Tor.
This not even a problem for linux technically, is the stupid floss developers packaging RPMs and only offering source balls instead of static builds.
One should be able to install shit from the software page that upgrades automatically like in windows, but floss developers have their head so far up their asses they don't care.
I'm happy with how linux is for me, but for my family it would be difficult to use

KDE predates GNOME by a few years.

>Static binaries don't just work they have many problems such as needing to recompile every single program just for a single security fix in one library.
Yeah the best solution is to just include copies of the libraries in local folders. That way, on the off chance that there's a real, relevant, security fix, you can swap out the lib. But otherwise, programs won't randomly break or have issues when they need different versions of the same library.

>hurr durrr yes give me more UI alternatibes i need them all
fuck off you're not even human for being this onions and autistic, I like linux because of the architecture and shell. Not because some stupid snowflake UI you unixporn retards like to sperg about.
If all we had was kde or gnome I would be perfectly fine, because a lot of people would be working on one, but the developers are split with their shitty buggy environment they can't maintain by themselves.
Fuck off and kill yourself cancer
that's fine I don't mean any order, but kde had proprietary stuff so I'm always biased towards gnome which has always been free

KDE briefly invoked some proprietary fears, and GNOME was the autistic response to it. GNOME is responsible for the fragmentation.

>If all we had was kde or gnome I would be perfectly fine, because a lot of people would be working on one, but the developers are split with their shitty buggy environment they can't maintain by themselves.
Neither of them are particularly stable (KDE is still way less fucked in this regard though.) You are a dumbass that doesn't know a goddamn thing about development. Your program will work on almost any window manager if you don't do some super special snowflake bullshit. I use WindowMaker and have been for many years and I've never had any problems with anything.

>hey let's develop on this blackbox what could go wrong?
no, gnome was reasonable.
whichever shit came afterwards

GNOME set the precedent.

MATE > *

Linux is only free if your time is worthless.

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compile from source pussy

Nonsense. Free software isn't about money.

It should just be the one guy and a billion windows users.
Linuxfags are not very numerous. Most people deal with it for their job.

Very true, linux is still in its dll hell phase. Fuck everyone who work on it, it's all garbage

>what is a .deb
>what is .appimage
>what is ~/bin

Literally taking the best thing and twisting it to be a bad thing

If I want Firefox, Spotify, and Slack I can install them in one fell swoop without going to three separate websites and clicking download buttons. it'll take about 30 seconds with a decent internet connection.

none of what's said there is true. whoever created it was a beginner because everything he described is available for linux distros in some shape or form. it's just that there's so many alternatives to everything that his peasant brain went into overdrive.

> golden age
or the death of computing development; some algorithmic advances will always happen but if you hardware is practically dead at improving, how much do you think software is going to improve.
some stuff simply can be perfected or almost be perfected.

stadia is cancer itself; 50ms+ delay minimum, 200 for most people if you're lucky.

> Source distribution
As if you read the source you faggots.
I could be sending you trojans all day long and you'd have no idea you jerks.

It's called dll hell but it's not near an issue as it is on Linux. Programs can bundle their own dlls, and Windows can have multiple dll versions installed.

kde wasn't free software dumbass

>hardware is practically dead at improving
Optical computers will happen within our lifetimes.

>there is no equivalent at all to executables or installation wizards
Absolutely true, wizards are magic and should be executed.

off to reddit you go!

false
geforce now gets down to 15-20 ms, even 50 ms is not that bad for casual gamers as you will hardly notice it
200 lol yes if the servers are located in like south africa and you in america

>wojackshit
>doesn't realize you can roll your own package mirror
>have to rely on unstandardized installers
>no knowledge of .deb or .rpm files

>windows doesnt have dependencies.
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

What does stadia have that others didn’t? Fuckhuge amount and spread of servers?

stadia gets native ports from developers

retard logic..
A) if you have a network connection then you can enjoy enhanced features and security updates..

B) if you want an air gapped pc then you can have your own frozen versions of software and work with them or install legacy .deb files etc..

what is even the point of this ..

100% correct

>installation wizards
homie what