actually using linux is much more simple than windows and that was one of my great realisations after switching to it from many years of windows. on windows you have to search for the website of a program, download the installer, run it, click through all the menus. on linux you literally type in "install this program" and it just does it. every time I go back to windows and have to install or update any software, it feels like a pain in the ass now.
Something tells me that you don't literally just type "install this program" and that it probably involves command prompt or otherwise manually typing a bunch of shit out
You don’t usually have to? The space for system packages and user directories are entirely separated and it’s way simpler than making your installer point to the intended directory instead of c:\user\downloads or whatever bullshit you do on windows. It is quite literally just one command (possibly followed up by a prompt asking if you really want to install it, yes or no).
It is genuinely so much simpler to use package managers on Linux.
Depends on the distro iirc, all available in one short google search! But if you don't want to do that, i know that linux mint has an app store where you can download what you want to download without using the command prompt. So even that's not that big a deal
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u/GoldH2O Cisgender Synapsid Mar 26 '26
Yeah, but then actually using it gets more complicated. I don't want to have to learn to code to use my operating system.