mFat to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agoWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?message-square231fedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down11
arrow-up1141arrow-down1message-squareWhat feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?mFat to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square231fedilink
minus-square@Ecology8622@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish21•1 year agoIMO nothing. As long as it can detect network I can install whatever tools I need.
minus-square@DickFiasco@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•1 year agoAgreed. The alternative is bloating the system with tools the user may not need. I’d rather just have to install a bunch of stuff on first use.
minus-square@iopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•1 year agoI couldn’t install some Python socks package because I need a proxy to access the Internet, but I needed the package to install any updates through socks, so I couldn’t install the package because I didn’t have it
IMO nothing. As long as it can detect network I can install whatever tools I need.
Agreed. The alternative is bloating the system with tools the user may not need. I’d rather just have to install a bunch of stuff on first use.
wifi drivers then?
I couldn’t install some Python socks package because I need a proxy to access the Internet, but I needed the package to install any updates through socks, so I couldn’t install the package because I didn’t have it