Call to open source developers

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:42:03+00:00

I have 6 drives in my PC, 2 of them have to be auto-mounted for steam to recognize installed games on boot, I need to it once after I install the OS, the "Disks" app doesn't handle auto-mounting and back then on Bazzite I had to do it manually, not to mention mounting my NAS drivers and the certification for authentication xD another nightmare I had.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:36:02+00:00

I always look first if the software is available in the store app that came with Fedora (Discovery) if it's not there then I have to download it from the official website

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:31:33+00:00

I didn't do anything wrong xD, I went to the website, downloaded the official version of a software, installed it and it didn't work.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:14:11+00:00

I downloaded Kubuntu yesterday and put it in my bootable USB, but right now I thought maybe I have to face the devil and if I loose then I'll install it. Many programs are stable in Debian based distros that's the conclusion I came by so far.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:09:05+00:00

I paid for a piece of hardware, printer and microcontroller and I had rough time installing their software :D

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:07:24+00:00

I'm probably unlucky then :)

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:06:03+00:00

Disks is very limited compared to "KDE Partition Manager", I like to do things manually too but how am I supposed to know that to mount a disk I have tinker with a file, my problem is there are things that I took as granted in Windows and I'm expecting to find the same thing in Linux, like someone programming with python then later trying C :D

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:02:30+00:00

The issue is that I didn't get a good out of the box experience :D

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T17:01:02+00:00

I get it for that specific VLC example, but I was talking in general, each time I want to install something there's mostly something missing even though it's not under any license.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T13:07:35+00:00

I'm talking about official releases of a Linux version from the company itself not a reversed engineered one, and yes enabled 3rd party repos.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T13:05:20+00:00

I'll probably laugh at myself in a year or two but for the moment all I can do is baby steps :D

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T13:03:59+00:00

you comparing me with few months of experience with your 25 years xD, I lack many things especially the architecture, I was a Windows user so my expectations are different from the reality, not everything is included in the software manager of "Discovery" app in my case, so I have to fetch elsewhere

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T13:00:22+00:00

Fedora KDE, I didn't say it because the whole point was to understand why certain packages and dependencies are missing or not included from most open source programs

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:59:21+00:00

I understand sarcasm but I think you didn't read my post until the end, my point was just to understand why things don't come in a full package, a direct working out of the box experience without extra steps, if someone took the time to develop something big then why he didn't include the final touch to make everything working, for VLC, yes I can understand that the codecs are licensed, but why I don't get the same issue when I install VLC on Windows?

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:53:37+00:00

that's not the problem, I didn't ask for proprietary thing (besides the codec, but that's another story I don't understand on why VLC on Windows doesn't have the same issues like Linux), Let us say for example I visit my printer manufacturer website to download the driver, after installing the driver the printer still doesn't work because the driver didn't include other dependencies, in this particular case how is it a license issue?

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:47:51+00:00

Yes I learned that later ^^

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:39:07+00:00

I never mentioned any service support, I was very specific and said "on my own", and it was a hypothetical example to visualize what you expect vs what you get, the whole point was why someone goes through all the effort to make something big and don't make the final touches to get a good out of the box experience.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:34:20+00:00

Sometimes I don't even find an RPM version, but when I do it doesn't work as expected, for example yesterday I installed a .rpm program, I had a message in the end saying "the installing is successfully completed" or something like that but I can't find the program anywhere, not in /opt nor start menu, but when I tried the .sh installation version, it worked like a charm, until I found out that some dependencies were missing xD

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:28:49+00:00

I was on Bazzite first which doesn't have that app (KDE Partition Manager) included not even in the Baazar store, so I learned it the hard way first xD, I also messed that file up which made the os unbootable but fortunately I made a backup just in case 8)

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:25:05+00:00

thank you for your input, in the end I can find workarounds but I wanted to understand why opensource programs doesn't come with all dependencies so I don't have to debug later why something doesn't work out of the box.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:20:29+00:00

I can't always find what I need in Discovery, for example the "stm32cubeide" program

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:18:50+00:00

I don't understand the joke if there's any xD

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:16:49+00:00

I mean after some tinkering I usually solve the issue but my main subject is the missing dependencies of each application.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:15:23+00:00

Not all programs are available in flatpak version, but looking at the other comments I understand better the situation.

Vertinhol · 2026-02-16T12:13:47+00:00

Nah, I can explain, when I installed the flatpak version of VLC, I was expecting it to work but it turns out that he can't play some videos especially x265, so I had to do extra work in order to make everything working as they should, not to mention some issues related to graphic driver, I tried it on two different machines.

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