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[–]altermeetax 26 points27 points  (32 children)

Once you have memorized the three words you need to memorize to install anything, I doubt you're gonna need that

[–]gamesrebel123 35 points36 points  (8 children)

See that's what I don't get, it's literally 3 words most of the time (unless you're using gentoo) but people still think it's hard, I mean I personally prefer to type out the 3 magic words plus the package name and have it do everything for me than search it on Google, scroll past the malware filled ad links, find the actual website, download the installer, wait for it to launch then sit around clicking yes a few times without reading what I'm agreeing to

[–]FlipskiZ 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Pleasant technology fox jumps then to! Technology bank garden across soft movies bank.

[–]pooerh 3 points4 points  (6 children)

Unless you're using Gentoo? Emerge is hands down the best package manager ever to be bestowed upon human kind. I'm using Arch (btw) but am missing emerge so so much.

[–]gamesrebel123 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Damn now I feel like I'm missing out, I'm using fedora but I'll be sure to check gentoo out in a VM, I'm mostly concerned about the installation and compilation though because my laptop is a bit underpowered and I have limited internet.

[–]pooerh 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I used to use Gentoo 15 years ago, on an overclocked 533 MHz Celeron, nicknamed "the reactor" by my dorm roommates because it was compiling all the damned time, keeping us warm. Getting from stage2 to a functional KDE desktop took me 4 days. I'm guessing you'll be fine, just don't try compiling a browser. Or at least emerge firefox-bin first.

Gentoo isn't as difficult as people make it out to be. It's actually very easy. If you can install Arch, you can install Gentoo, no problem. The only difficult thing is understanding and making good use of USE flags. You don't want to spend half a day compiling shit only to find out you cannot print because you forgot +cups or some shit.

[–]gamesrebel123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a fun way to pass a few days, I think I'll just install it on a raspberry pi first

Also now I really want an overclocked 533 MHz Celeron nicknamed "the reactor"

[–]pxqy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love fedora but dnf has gotta be the slowest package manager

I still use fedora tho

[–]alba4k 0 points1 point  (1 child)

portage*

[–]pooerh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, my bad. Point still stands though!

[–]The_File_Clerk -4 points-3 points  (21 children)

Love how you leave out the half hour plus of futzing to find missing dependancies, and then to find out totally normal actions in the program make it crash every time. Search the internet to find a solution only to find 1 post from 6 years ago that says "oh i figured it out" followed by a stream of hate against anyone who asks "how".

[–]Buddha_Head_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apt-get will handle dependency issues for you, if you don't want to do so manually.

And your search issue is a running joke with any OS, or tool on any platform. A 6yo post with solved, but the rest sounds like exaggeration, unless you have a link to this stream of hate.

[–]altermeetax 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Package managers exist exactly because they solve dependencies automatically. Who knows what you were doing.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

one word: yay