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What on earth are you tweaking and repairing for so many hours?
My shortlist, off the top of my head:
.desktopfiles actually live in, and navigating the poorly-documented format for modifying themI thrive in the pain. But yes, there is plenty of pain.
Now here's someone who uses Linux. 😆
I think Python is a PITA on Windows too.
Not OP, but I’ve been trying to allow an external drive to be written to from a computer in a different room on the same network and I swear to god this shit is impossible.
I do this via ssh / fusefs and it works completely fine. What are you using?
I want to be able to copy from Mac OS to Ubuntu (whatever both current versions are)
This is a project to learn Linux so it hasn’t been super urgent. One day I may switch but this alone has been frustrating enough to say that either me or Linux isn’t ready.
I can share a folder from my Mac that Ubuntu can see and copy from there, but I’d like to skip walking across the house and copy directly to the external drive attached to the Linux machine from the Mac.
I’ve just been following tutorials because I don’t know my command line, like at all. I’ve learned a bunch of stuff, but still can’t do what I want.
I think SSHFS would work for your case as well. You'd have to enable SSH on your Mac to do it.
This is all off-topic for a Linux hate CJ so feel free to message me if you want more details.
Haha ok thanks :)
I’m trying to un-corporatize my life as much as possible. I’m a freelancer and I really like the idea of Linux. For simple things like email, zoom meetings, spreadsheets and invoices, I’ve got it and I love it.
But when I start trying to do networking stuff I know how to do on my Mac is where things start to fall apart.
I have yet to attempt video editing on Linux, but I’m running it on an old laptop my friend was going to throw out so it wouldn’t really be a fair test.
I like Linux in general and I really like the idea of Linux, but this is one of my biggest gripes about Linux, and FOSS overall. They have all these instructions on how you can do this step or that task, but there are never examples that tie it together into a cohesive solution. This is fine if you have a good grasp of how everything works and just need pointers on specific command syntax or usage, but if you only have a general idea about what you want to do, there is nothing out there to give you an idea of how to get started.
Linux on the desktop being popular for people who don't know how to use bash shell isn't really a priority in my opinion. Canonical probably has that as something of a goal, but even they focus a lot of time and energy on Ubuntu server, which has no GUI at all.
I understand people not wanting to learn how to use a shell, but ultimately you're probably going to be dependent upon corporate software for a long time. CLIs are more expressive than a GUI ever will be.
As a developer, I have a company issued MacBook and I spend much of my time in iterm2 on it. The shell is what makes the Mac useful as a development platform. That's also the reason Windows is trying to accommodate Linux with crap like WSL, because developers basically all want a bash shell. Many of the UI developers I work with even primarily develop using a shell.
Yeah I’m going to wait a while to fully transition. I need a hardware upgrade soon. I may just get a new (used) Mac, wipe my current one and start over with a fresh Linux install on that. 🤷♂️
It's respectful, helpful, and not evangelizing to normies, so I'm perfectly fine and even updooted your reply. Thanks for contributing!
Python dependencies while having to use python2 and python3 at the same time
Only problem I've bumped into with that is that the "python" command doesn't work out of box on most newer Linux machines. It definitely doesn't take hours nor any repairs to install "python3-is-python" and get that working either (if I care).
Try using outdated tools with deprecated dependencies, and then those deprecated dependencies need old versions of libs you have the newer versions installed.
I mean I've done a thing or two but honestly the worst problem I've had in recent years is trying to get a flatpak to work in Linux mint / newest Ubuntu because something about Qt had changed.
For the most part it works, without the ads, unlike the "competition". I also get an advantage in that it's basically a native thing for me at this point, so I'm better than a lot of my co-workers at using it (which is inevitable because Linux is basically the entire Internet).