Linux users when

Linux users install chrome now...?

Real Linux users use curl and render the page in their imagination.

it's always important to install chrome so google can see the first website you visit before you uninstall is www.firefox com/download

Was going to upvote then saw them install chrome. Just why? Use Firefox or Chromium

Literally no Linux user ever....

firefox tho

Why are you showing people how to deliberately install spyware?

Bro this is like pineapple on pizza, you know some people like it, but you also know that is objectively fucking WRONG. WTF

These days I wouldn't dare to even chrome my windows.

Chrome? Never! Only firefox. Eventually chromium.

Is there a punchline to this I’m missing?

no, no, no its too easy, Wheres the terminals? and the long compile time.

(this post was written partially from and intel compute stick running gentoo, which started compiling 7hours ago and still is)

mmmm tasty 2GB of ram

And that's the SLOW way!

Installed Chrome via GUI

kinda sus

chrome?

Linux users uninstalling browser: basically same as what the op shows.

Windows users uninstalling browser

I don't know why so many windows users find it so difficult to install software on linux.

Use the app store like you do on your phone

And yet, they keep opening a browser and searching "how do I install X".

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sudo apt install firefox

Literally Firefox in the dock...

Now show how much trouble windows users need to go through to remove S-mode because Microsoft considers chrome to be a "potential security risk", which... Yeah, it kinda is!

We found the imposter!

Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.

Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?

Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.

In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.

Sure... Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.

I'm keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can't afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.

I think my simple issue here is... I'm not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something

apt install 'WTF IS THIS SHIT?'

No i download the source code to Chromium and i build it from source with Widevine.

Why does gnome software looks so much smoother of an interface back then. Now the search takes forever and the interface is buggy.

In general I don't like using "store" apps. It's far too trusting for my taste. I go to the source, I don't let somebody curate for me. To do that on linux usually involves using the terminal, which is fine. It's just a little more involved.

I kind of like the workflow on a Windows for installing things better. You enter a site address, download a file (sometimes after scanning it with another website), run the install wizard, you're in.

Definitely not a top concern in any case, these pros and cons are meaningless in the face of choosing security and privileges that come with Linux.

s/browser/spyware/

pacman -Sy waterfox

Not accurate, firefox comes preinstalled

So many people in the comments are being wooshed.

browsers i have:

firefox (main)

librewolf (😏)

vivaldi (no longer have installed except on my phone)

chromium (for webusb)

I’ve got a Steam Deck, and just installed Bazzite onto it, and I’m currently wishing that installing everything was as simple as this. Back when I used Linux daily there wasn’t this whole idea of “rootless” and immutable and sandboxed environments, and just figuring out how to get yad installed for steamtinkerlaunch to work had me faffing about with Nix and Fleek and Distrobox, and they’re all neat if I had the time to learn them but long story short I wish everything was package managers with a simple GUI.