• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I have 7 devices running various distros right now. 4 Pi’s, 2 PCs and a laptop.

    #1 reason linux isn’t my daily desktop. Want to install [thing]. Thing doesn’t work. Doesn’t (build, install, configure, make, whatever). “MAKE” not installed. What? Install MAKE. Still doesn’t work. Wrong permissions. Doesn’t offer error messages so you know why it doesn’t work. Missing dependency. Install dependency. Still doesn’t work. No documentation other than forums full of other users with the same problem and the solutions are: 5 different ways to do the same thing that don’t apply to your distro or version which has changed 5 major versions since the answer was valid. Gave up and installed a different distro. A long set of instructions that, even when followed precisely, only works 20% of the time. Don’t use SUDO to install? but SUDO is the only way it works! Software has no GUI, command line only. Doesn’t work on your distro even though documentation says it does. Even if it’s available in a package manager in the distro you have doesn’t mean it will work. Spend hours chasing down ways to make it work and finally give up.

    I love linux and the ability to get under the hood and do whatever I want with it. When it works. But it ABSOLUTELY is not for everyone.

    • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Same here, i’ve got plenty of devices running linux, and i might give it a chance again for my daily driver, but i know it will be a complete pain in the ass, and waste a lot of my time…