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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux? (feddit.uk)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I'm doing here. Can't I just download a file and install it? I'm on Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Horseshit. Why do people endlessly promote Linux only to turn around and express smugness, gatekeeping, and hostility to new users?

You're not even correct. The Everything as a file philosophy isn't an antivirus program. Like it's impossible to get malware by blindly pasting script into a terminal.

This attitude is a bigger obstacle to adoption than games compatibility.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Am not promoting Linux, I don't know where you got that idea from.
How is it hostility when am letting OP know that's exactly what's included in the package when he chose Linux? And that unlike Windows where you install downloaded files as programs, things work differently over here?
You can install malware by blindly copypasting commands on any terminal, the OS doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because you chose to phrase it as an insult. "To keep people like you from doing X" has a very different connotation than "this is a security feature that helps protect inexperienced users from malware." One is helpful, one is demeaning.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago

You are reading too much into the comment.