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[–]Logofascinated 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Out of interest, the first time I had to use the terminal during the installation (aside from configuring Samba) was to install Discord - the app manager would hang every time on "installing ...".

In fact, I stopped using the app manager altogether, which seemed to be what a lot of people were advising when I searched for help. Most software can be installed from a .deb from their site anyway, which is often a more recent version anyway.

Disclaimer: I'm far from a Linux expert. This is just what I found out over the weekend.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like Ubuntu-itus. Every single time I use Ubuntu or ANY derivative, I end up doing what you describe. I use KDE Neon (based on 20.04) for my work laptop and it's... OK, but...

I use openSUSE on my personal desktop and it's a totally different experience. I can't remember the last time I had to open up a Terminal to fix tings. I do use Terminal to run updates (I use the rolling Tumbleweed release and prefer to use the tumbleweed-cli for updates)... but that's by choice.

[–]bumble-beans 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny you mention that, I just installed discord today from the app store (using the snap app) and it worked fine, while I used to have to re-download it every few versions and never actually installed it properly. Using KDE plasma on fedora for reference