• Alborlin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I came in to say bravo, Since day 1 on Lemmy i been hounded by Linux dude bros , whenever I say Linux is not possible I been down voted to hell.

    Even as simple thing as putting a program in start-up is hassle and varies depending upon distribution, and I went on rabbit hole just like you said.

    Even the friendlier(?) versions like pop os and zorin in 2024 and no where near to use ability as windows 95 is.

    The worst thing is use of command/terminal , I simple just don’t want to use it at all, but not possible to do that STILL in Linux and dude bros keep telling me this is essential and their grandparents are using mint. This is believable only if they surf Internet and not do anything extra at all, that too since flash is dead , cause I have first hand experienced that I had to play with multiple command lines and what nots just to get YouTube working on Linux .

    Linux is not ready to be used in home setting not unless it simplifies further as much as windows does AND has lot ofnsoftwarws availability. Think of something and thwr is software for it on windows , hardly the case for Linux ANY DISTRO.

    now we await on Lemmy , for Linux dude bros to come out and defend Linux with 4% usage and down votes.

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      6 months ago

      To be fair IDK how to tell a Windows program how to start up automatically if it didn’t have an option for that in it’s own settings… I’d have to search for a Windows guide

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        6 months ago

        But thats the thing you do know it , its found with one Search and applicable to Alllllllll the machines running the WINDOWS os (albeit different version might be lillte different) but on “linux” os its not the same for each distro, and its not easy in some cases

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          6 months ago

          Instead of “Windows add app to startup” I would search “Ubuntu add app to startup” and limit it to articles posted in the past year. Maybe not obvious but not that different honestly.

          On the other hand, no amount of searching got my laptop’s volume up and down keys to work in Ubuntu :(

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      6 months ago

      The upshot of your comment with the current situation is: Windows users want someone to wipe their a*** for them and are increasingly OK with the wiping hand doing other things it feels like at the same time.

      At least with Linux’s rough paper, it’s my own damn hand.

    • uis@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      Even as simple thing as putting a program in start-up is hassle and varies depending upon distribution, and I went on rabbit hole just like you said.

      If you want to start program on login(like on windows), then you need to use you DE’s settngs GUI. If you want to start program on boot, then you need to enable startup script in your init.

      So problems like in Windows are solved like in Windows.

      and their grandparents are using mint.

      My grandparents(and parents. and me.) are using Gentoo, but I recommend to people OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.