XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-31 08:34, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-31 11:04, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-31 05:33, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   >>> Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 2025-12-30 13:19, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>> "installing an application takes mere seconds."   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> Data is data, it doesn't magically come down the pipe faster to a   
   >>>>>> Linux system.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> And yet they do.   
   >>>   
   >>> The reason is that a Linux application usually finds that all of   
   >>> the dependencies it needs are *already* installed. Saves time.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Give an example.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Show me a Linux app the equivalent of a macOS app that magically   
   >>>> installs in "seconds".   
   >>>   
   >>> On a Debian system, updating/installing 300 packages takes a few   
   >>> minutes.   
   >>>   
   >>> As for a specific package: OBS Studio   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Really bad example.   
   >>   
   >> I just downloaded OBS Studio for an Apple Silicon Mac.   
   >   
   > Which I assume requires you to use a web browser to venture onto a   
   > specific web site. Then, depending on your connection speed, it can take   
   > seconds or minutes. Still, you have to factor in the process of going to   
   > a web site whereas in Linux, you either go to a terminal and type in a   
   > simple command or open up the bundled "store" they might have.   
      
   Do it. Tell me how long the whole thing takes.   
      
   >   
   >> That took 4 seconds.   
   >   
   > Not yet installed.   
   >   
   >> Mounted the DMG.   
   >   
   > Still not installed.   
   >   
   >> 1-2 seconds   
   >>   
   >> Copied the application to the Applications folder   
   >>   
   >> Another 2 or 3 seconds.   
   >   
   > Installed.   
   >   
   >> You were saying?   
   >>   
   >> (If you doubt me, I'll make a screen video of it).   
   >   
   > We all believe you, but it's still more cumbersome than on Linux.   
   Is it, though?   
      
   How do you know what command to type into the terminal to install OBS   
   Studio?   
      
   Did you, maybe... ...visit a website?   
      
      
      
   Or do Linux users have some special ESP power to simply know the command   
   necessary?   
      
   :-)   
      
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