That’s why we got dem tar and dnf
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kadup@lemmy.world 2 days agoI’ve also been able to find 99% of what I need through discover.
If what you need is Discord and Chrome, sure.
When you need specific drivers things change dramatically. And some packages technically exist as Flatpaks, but with permission issues that no regular user is ever fixing
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 days ago
kadup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s why we got dem tar and dnf
On Fedora, sure. Not Bazzite, on Bazzite you’d need distrobox to use it - users barely understand what Linux is, good luck with distrobox instructions.
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, on bazzite because it’s a fedora distro
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
if you need specific drivers that arent in a generic kernel you’re already out of everyday user territory even on a normal distro.
kadup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People will say some absurd statement like this one and then pretend to be confused when Linux adoption fails to grow faster.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Its OK for them to step out of everyday user territory no one is saying they can’t. Its just that installing drivers on Linux is not common.
The nvidia driver is the only thing I can think that an average user would need to install and that is shipped pre installed in most distros.
Also I’m not confused Linux isn’t growing fast enough. I’m surprised limux is growing as fast as it is. Linux is growing at an insane rate.
A_Porcupine@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’m not sure that the NIC on one of the most popular Asus motherboards is really outside of everyday user territory. In my case, it’s a realtek onboard ethernet chip.
On a “normal” distro the drivers for this are pretty easy to install, and is definitely something an everyday user could achieve (double click a single file in the download from realtek).