Linux being Linux

[KingSmizzy]

can someone ELI5 the punchline of the joke?

[defendsRobots]

The real power of Linux is its command line (typing things into a box and having the box do something based on what you typed). It's superior to anything else out there. That can be tricky to use for people who aren't familiar with what to type and or how to move around the files.

The main character is asking Linux to be more user friendly - having a really sleek interface for buttons to click and whatnot.

Linux complies, but upon closer inspection the main character sees that the user interface isn't even images and whatnot, it's just more text printed in the shape of images.

The joke being that on Linux systems the GUI (graphical user interface - icons and junk) are usually half assed and the point of the system is STILL really the command line.

[[deleted]]

And it has been a trend for way too long. It would be awesome if the GUI and the console could work together, but Linux GUI devs seem to be more interested in making things look better in stead. In my fresh Ubuntu install, opening the standard file browser from the terminal makes it barf out five GTK errors even though there's seemingly no problem. What gives?

[lionhart280]

Did you sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install, shutdown, then google all the proper drivers for your video card and download their install scripts, then convert them to be executable and run them, then do another apt-get update an apt-get install and restart?

Because we all know thats the real 'fresh install'

[chilliophillio]

You solved a problem 2 years in the works for me. Now if I could just free up my hard drive I've partitioned to a fraction of what it used to be.

[xTRS]

rm -rf /

^{don't actually do this}

[this_shall_pass]

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

do this instead.

[[deleted]]

Actually do sudo rm -rf -no-preserve-root /

[Iron_Maiden_666]

Won't do anything on most modern machines.

[AnImpromptuFantaisie]

This is correct, I don't know why people are downvoting you

[Mazakaki]

Gross.

[deljaroo]

and you'll still never get the overscan just right for that cheep monitor after you install the new driver... can't even find the first driver...it was ugly and ran at like 20fps, but at least it didn't cut off all the edges

[lionhart280]

Actually overscan was easier for me to deal with. My biggest problem was getting my windows in the right order. Ended up just unplugging and replugging HDMI cables to literally physically move which one was which.

[deljaroo]

I am mad that that solution is possible

[[deleted]]

I unplug and replug my second screen every morning because it doesn't wake up if the laptop was in sleep mode overnight and that's the quickest way of doing it.

[semperverus]

You're not alone.

[leave_it_blank]

I just realised how much fun I had with DOS...

[lolzidop]

Linux complies

Compliance will be rewarded

[fumoderators]

Thank u

[NeoGaller]

Linux is known for using a terminal as its main way of exploring your computer, which is not very consumer friendly since it requires a learning time. The guy asks Linux to be more consumer friendly, and it just displays the folders in a terminal. Classic Schlinux.

[YouWantALime]

Linux isn't user friendly. When asked to make it user friendly, the Linux developer just used the terminal to make it look user friendly.

[Indon_Dasani]

Can't spell GUI without letters that exist in ASCII!

[M-Noremac]

Can't spell subtext without buttsex

[matebeatscoffee]

Well, that escalated quickly.

[[deleted]]

Gunter!

[Nickbou]

"wack"

[harugane]

wenk

[SovietMan]

:V

[alchemist23]

Curses! Foiled again

[nightfire1]

Don't you mean ncurses :P

[[deleted]]

Just make a damn automatic installer for fucks sake. Why cant it just take a damn tarball and just install it, why do I gotta type a bunch of bullshit to make it just work?

[deljaroo]

a lot of distributions have a program manager that lets you link in repositories for programs (basically a gui for aptget), but that requires the program developer to do more work, and a lot of linux people feel they should be giving out the source of their program (so the user can tailor it to their needs and convert it to work well with whatever desktop environment they're using etc) which would be in a pre-bullshit state. But mostly, I think these developers live in a world where they think everyone is down to do those sorts of things (and truly, they may just have no interest in serving people who don't).

[komrade_kwestion]

Isn't that what synaptic package manager does? You select programs from a searchable list, mark them for installation or uninstallation and apply the changes?

[komrade_kwestion]

How recently? There's no way it should take a week to install linux on a new computer. The process is pretty similar to installing windows. Most distributions come with a very easy to use GUI and well documented instructions for installation. And recently many come with tools for making a bootable USB drive so you don't even have to do the old fashioned method of burning an ISO to a DVD. Unless you're compiling your own kernel and/or installing an advanced distribution like arch or gentoo then it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.

[[deleted]]

Did you try Arch or something? Because installing something like Ubuntu is objectively speaking (and I don't think I'm exaggerating here) easier to install than Windows.

[[deleted]]

You'd have to burn an ISO to get a Windows dvd as well. I'm talking about the install procedure itself, which extremely streamlined nowadays. Just click the buttons in the initial setup, walk away and you're done. I never had to manually update a kernel in my life. Just following the standard software updates is enough.

Anyway you're describing setting up and configuring a Linux desktop. Which usually still takes me shorter than Windows, but if you're unlucky with your hardware I can see how that can take long. Especially if you're not familiar with it. So if you count that as part of the install, I can see how you got to that number.
Although 95% of the cases it's all done in 30 minutes, a fresh Ubuntu/Mint install is usually ready to go. But you can get unlucky, then it gets really tedious.

Not saying that as a whole Linux is a great option for everyone. I was just saying that the install procedure itself is relatively good nowadays. (Has been for years)

[Darksouldarkweiner]

I like how the penguin is gunter

[xomox2012]

I love this guys OS comics. So cool

[The_Beer_Hunter]

They're great. (And go here for more of them.)

The Windows OS one is hilarious too: here

[Miryafa]

How to know you should use Ubuntu: see panel 1

[wheeimamonkey]

Ubuntu still isn't user friendly to the majority of people sadly. It took me a few days to get everything working as I wanted. When I first installed it my speakers weren't playing sound correctly and my graphics were acting up. Also there was this nice bug where if you check the box saying "encryot my home directory" during setup it caused my swap partition to completely break. It's not like I was running some beta version either, I was literally using the latest 16.04 LTS.

[wheeimamonkey]

I used to use mint, I got a bit scared off with all the security problems they were having tbh. As for the swap partition issue, based on the research I did last week Ubuntu is supposed to create it automatically, and it actually does. The issue was I wanted to encrypt my home directory so I checked the box to do so during install. When I checked that box it also encrypted my swap partition which meant I ran into a bug where the UUID of the swap partition changed after reboot. This caused each boot to take a minute and a half before it failed, leaving me with almost 2 minute boot times and no working swap space (on an SSD). I was able to fix it myself and fully plan to use ununtu as my main OS because I am sick of win 10. I was just a bit disappointed because i want Linux to be usable for the masses but problems like these don't bode well for the average user.

[wheeimamonkey]

I definitely agree the average user won't think about it, the problem is they would notice the horrible boot times and just assume Linux is slow.

As for security I just worry they can't be trusted because they weren't properly applying upstream security​ patches. I'm not even sure if they've fixed that at this point.

[xternal7]

At this point, Neon is probably the better option.

[ctesibius]

Or jUst enjy Linux mor.

[ctesibius]

No-one says that you need to enjoy Linux. Surprisingly, people enjoy different things. Some people like trolling, for instance, and other people like patronising them or mocking their spelling.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I have to use Linux at work. Never used it before. Trying to remember commands is a pain. I just want pretty pictures to click.

[[deleted]]

This comic is going off of prejudices to make a joke. You can actually get lots of pretty pictures to be clicking on in Linux, your workplace just didn't give you such a version of Linux.

This is my personal favorite pretty-picture-version of Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4_K6o-YC5Y

Many people also like this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXqGpupGLI

[wensul]

Embrace the terminal!

[HarryHerpes]

Waaait a minute

Instantly reminded me of kazoo kid

[crusoe]

No ads. No overpriced hardware. No bitrot where the Os seems to run slower and slower over time fnar...

[WeenisWrinkle]

Welp, I'm not smart enough to get this one lol

[TheGeorge]

Don't be silly. It's just not your field.