• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    My favourite thing about updates on my work Mac is when you say ‘try in one hour’ thinking it’ll ask you then an hour later it aggressively closes your programs. I use Linux, Mac and Windows regularly and Mac has by far the worst update experience out of all of them imo.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      I’ve clicked the “install updates tonight” button a bunch of times, it consistently fails to update and then I have to force it to update the next morning. Incredibly poor experience.

    • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It could. It just doesn’t want to. Why would it? Its your computer.

      If you want to delete / including the EFI partition turning your machine into a paperweight you should be allowed to do so.

        • LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
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          6 months ago

          While that is possible. You do have to go out of your way to do that in ways a typical user wouldn’t.

          Aside from that like others have said. Just don’t give sudo perms and have them use Flatpak.

            • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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              6 months ago

              you can add sudo permissions for individual users for certain commands only; and i recommend you would do that; i.e. give her sudo permission for installing/uninstalling applications, but nothing else.

            • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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              6 months ago

              Just to be clear, the person answering Flatpaks isn’t being flippant. Any tools, editors or games that Mom wants, she can safely install by searching and clicking ‘intall’, all without enough permissions to harm her computer.

              Linux, for less technical parents, is genuinely really nice, now.

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Installing old Linux applications IS a problem. They’re available only if someone repackaged them for newer distros. If not they can’t run anymore because of dependencies mismatch.

    • tiny@midwest.socialEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It’s gotten significantly better with containerization technologies like oci containers and flatpak. Yes it uses more storage, but the drive space pretty cheap

    • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Just supply the dependencies with a chroot. That’s how we did it before distro maintainers started including the 32bit libraries into the 64bit OS.

    • unhrpetby@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      This is a good reason for static linking. All the dependencies are built into the binary, meaning it is more portable and future proof.

      We don’t need flatpak for this!

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    You can also remove the fr*nch language pack via rm -fr /

    But in all seriosity, i tried to install Linux dual-boot with Windows on my dad’s computer last weekend, and it broke the windows install because it doesn’t support bitlocker (apparently). Maybe i could have gotten it to work, but i abandoned the project after the first failed attempt. Still a bit salty about that. Especially since it was meant to be a demonstration how “quick and easy” installing Linux nowadays supposedly is.