In other words, you've seen fucked up systems because people treat their Linux system like literally every non-Linux system they've used.
Which is a Linux problem, not a user problem.
Hahah not a Linux problem at all
No, it's a user problem on both OS's.
Installing random shit from untrustworthy sources is a much more likely source of infection that a zero-day, network-based exploit, etc
Not every OS allows you to simply click on a random installer/eventually (maybe enter a password) and get owned.
IOS on phones doesn't.
Android requires you enable untrusted sources.
It sounds like not including a GUI app by default to click-install random packages (outside the package manager) is the extra step for various Linux distros. That's not a problem, that's a good idea.
Random shit
Untrustworthy
So github is untrustworthy now.
And again you're arguing in favor of walled gardens. Fucking hypocritical imbeciles. Anything to keep your precious fucking OS free from criticism, right?
Github is untrustworthy, anyone can put anything on there. It is up to the end user to determine if a project is safe to use or not.
The default repos for Debain on the other hand are filled only with software that has been checked by at least one competent person, making them inherently safe.
But I thought the open nature of open source meant it was safe because someone has checked all code everywhere!
This shit has become tedious.
This shit has become tedious
No kidding. Open source software is safe because it can come from a trusted source that can be checked by others. Not every open source project is checked but the default repos of Debian, for example, are checked and can be trusted.
All closed source software, on the other hand, is untrustworthy because it can never be checked. This goes for the iOS and Android ecosystems as well. Despite their walled gardens the software is not open and can not be checked, which is why malicious software keeps making it's way onto phones.
Have you ever heard of malicious code in the Debian repos?
Have you ever heard of malicious code in the Debian repos?
I think I heard so a few times, yes. Depends on what you define as "malicious" and which of the repos you'd call Debian repos. Is Debian only stable or is it unstable and testing or contrib or non-free aswell?
This shit has become tedious.
It always was tedious to use computers, people just get a lot of stuff abstracted away by millions of hours of manpower.
It's hardly a Linux problem that other OSs have done things in an inferior way.
The "inferior way" being precisely the kind of walled garden Linux apologist types typically shit their pants and smear in on their faces about. But it's fine because it's UBUNTU's walled garden! Can't be using anything Ubuntu doesn't allow!
A dozen incompatible distribution standards, with shit not even compiled for most of them, relying on the distro for updates that can run several versions behind because the newest version isn't compatible with THEIR ecosystem...
But App Store bad. Windows Store bad. Play Store bad.
Piss on that hypocrisy.
A walled garden doesn’t offer you the freedom to leave it. If you’re unhappy with Ubuntu, you can use a bajillion other distros and get the same software elsewhere. If you preserve your home directory and distro hop then nothing changes for you and your preferences/dot files carry over. I jumped between three distros at some point and my custom GNOME setup (extensions and all) survived through it with minor changes. Heck. Even Thunderbird kept my profile active and I never had to re-add all my email credentials from scratch.
Can you do that with Windows or MacOS?
Can you do that with Windows or MacOS?
Yes, I can in fact download programs that aren't on the Windows or Mac app stores. Are you even paying attention here?
But you can't completely switch your system with a different version managed by different people while preserving your home folder.
You can't choose the windows you get, Microsoft chooses for you
I'm sorry, are we talking about shit that users do or are we talking about masturbatory sysadmin jizzcup filler? Because it seems like you're not paying attention to the conversation, which is that Ubuntu doesn't even let users install .deb packages through the fucking package manager.
It's not hard to switch to another Linux distro. Many, like mint, even let you separate the home partition with the grafical installer too.
The issue was that those users didn't understand what they were doing and managed to mess up their systems. If you know what you're doing then installing debs like regular could be totally fine.
Well it was the users who had a problem with their systems being messed up
Yes, by the shit-tier decisions of the distro developers.
You mean their decision to allow GUI installs of debs or what do you mean? The problem was the easy install and since they can't control what is installed, the people I mentioned just installed whatever random shit not even made for the distro in question. It was a mess.
No it is not a system issue. User made an assumption and got a slap as this is not windows.
Something that worked last week now does not work.
System issue. Suck less shit at systems and maybe people in general would give a shit about Linux.
You act like problems don't happen on windows and macOS. But they do happen, and they're harder to fix than on linux most of the time.
Then again, with immutable distros, Debian, Linux Mint, and others, most of the time if something doesn't work it is because the user did something to break their system and in those cases put effort into it.
If you are a user that only uses the computer to browse the web, maybe play some games on steam, then you're unlikely to encounter any issues provided you chose the right distro (Mint would be my recommendation but I hear Fedora Silverblue works nicely). If you're the kind of user to tinker a lot then you're likely not a noob and you have no excuse for not looking up what you're doing.
If you aren't willing to learn at least the basics of how to do the stuff you want to do then probably you shouldn't do that stuff, not blame the system for doing what you told it to do.
"Provided you choose the right distro."
Yeah. Windows or MacOS if you actually want to do shit.
EDIT
Just wanted to mention, I've never had an issue with Windows or MacOS that wasn't directly caused by my own personal fuckery. Somehow though, I've had multiple Linux distro installs decide to hose themselves because they didn't update through the precious fucking package manager properly. You know, the thing that everyone is now shitting on users for not using?
The most fun one was whenever a Debian update decided that the right thing to do was move my primary drive into a subfolder in /etc. Yeah. That fucking happened.
So you're complaining that your system breaks because you're trying to use it as something that it isn't, without looking up what you're doing, and somehow that's not your fault?
If you try to use a fork as an outlet cleaner don't complain that the outlet sucks when you're getting electrocuted.
Thats also possible with appstream. But unless the repos go and people just install flatpaks, stuff like this will happen.
In other words, you've seen fucked up systems because people treat their Linux system like literally every non-Linux system they've used.
Which is a Linux problem, not a user problem.
Hahah not a Linux problem at all
No, it's a user problem on both OS's. Installing random shit from untrustworthy sources is a much more likely source of infection that a zero-day, network-based exploit, etc
Not every OS allows you to simply click on a random installer/eventually (maybe enter a password) and get owned. IOS on phones doesn't. Android requires you enable untrusted sources.
It sounds like not including a GUI app by default to click-install random packages (outside the package manager) is the extra step for various Linux distros. That's not a problem, that's a good idea.
So github is untrustworthy now.
And again you're arguing in favor of walled gardens. Fucking hypocritical imbeciles. Anything to keep your precious fucking OS free from criticism, right?
Github is untrustworthy, anyone can put anything on there. It is up to the end user to determine if a project is safe to use or not.
The default repos for Debain on the other hand are filled only with software that has been checked by at least one competent person, making them inherently safe.
But I thought the open nature of open source meant it was safe because someone has checked all code everywhere!
This shit has become tedious.
No kidding. Open source software is safe because it can come from a trusted source that can be checked by others. Not every open source project is checked but the default repos of Debian, for example, are checked and can be trusted.
All closed source software, on the other hand, is untrustworthy because it can never be checked. This goes for the iOS and Android ecosystems as well. Despite their walled gardens the software is not open and can not be checked, which is why malicious software keeps making it's way onto phones.
Have you ever heard of malicious code in the Debian repos?
I think I heard so a few times, yes. Depends on what you define as "malicious" and which of the repos you'd call Debian repos. Is Debian only stable or is it unstable and testing or contrib or non-free aswell?
It always was tedious to use computers, people just get a lot of stuff abstracted away by millions of hours of manpower.
Was it ever trustworthy? What made you think that?
It's hardly a Linux problem that other OSs have done things in an inferior way.
The "inferior way" being precisely the kind of walled garden Linux apologist types typically shit their pants and smear in on their faces about. But it's fine because it's UBUNTU's walled garden! Can't be using anything Ubuntu doesn't allow!
A dozen incompatible distribution standards, with shit not even compiled for most of them, relying on the distro for updates that can run several versions behind because the newest version isn't compatible with THEIR ecosystem...
But App Store bad. Windows Store bad. Play Store bad.
Piss on that hypocrisy.
A walled garden doesn’t offer you the freedom to leave it. If you’re unhappy with Ubuntu, you can use a bajillion other distros and get the same software elsewhere. If you preserve your home directory and distro hop then nothing changes for you and your preferences/dot files carry over. I jumped between three distros at some point and my custom GNOME setup (extensions and all) survived through it with minor changes. Heck. Even Thunderbird kept my profile active and I never had to re-add all my email credentials from scratch.
Can you do that with Windows or MacOS?
Yes, I can in fact download programs that aren't on the Windows or Mac app stores. Are you even paying attention here?
But you can't completely switch your system with a different version managed by different people while preserving your home folder.
You can't choose the windows you get, Microsoft chooses for you
I'm sorry, are we talking about shit that users do or are we talking about masturbatory sysadmin jizzcup filler? Because it seems like you're not paying attention to the conversation, which is that Ubuntu doesn't even let users install .deb packages through the fucking package manager.
It's not hard to switch to another Linux distro. Many, like mint, even let you separate the home partition with the grafical installer too.
The issue was that those users didn't understand what they were doing and managed to mess up their systems. If you know what you're doing then installing debs like regular could be totally fine.
Well it was the users who had a problem with their systems being messed up
Yes, by the shit-tier decisions of the distro developers.
You mean their decision to allow GUI installs of debs or what do you mean? The problem was the easy install and since they can't control what is installed, the people I mentioned just installed whatever random shit not even made for the distro in question. It was a mess.
No it is not a system issue. User made an assumption and got a slap as this is not windows.
Something that worked last week now does not work.
System issue. Suck less shit at systems and maybe people in general would give a shit about Linux.
You act like problems don't happen on windows and macOS. But they do happen, and they're harder to fix than on linux most of the time.
Then again, with immutable distros, Debian, Linux Mint, and others, most of the time if something doesn't work it is because the user did something to break their system and in those cases put effort into it.
If you are a user that only uses the computer to browse the web, maybe play some games on steam, then you're unlikely to encounter any issues provided you chose the right distro (Mint would be my recommendation but I hear Fedora Silverblue works nicely). If you're the kind of user to tinker a lot then you're likely not a noob and you have no excuse for not looking up what you're doing.
If you aren't willing to learn at least the basics of how to do the stuff you want to do then probably you shouldn't do that stuff, not blame the system for doing what you told it to do.
"Provided you choose the right distro."
Yeah. Windows or MacOS if you actually want to do shit.
EDIT
Just wanted to mention, I've never had an issue with Windows or MacOS that wasn't directly caused by my own personal fuckery. Somehow though, I've had multiple Linux distro installs decide to hose themselves because they didn't update through the precious fucking package manager properly. You know, the thing that everyone is now shitting on users for not using?
The most fun one was whenever a Debian update decided that the right thing to do was move my primary drive into a subfolder in /etc. Yeah. That fucking happened.
So you're complaining that your system breaks because you're trying to use it as something that it isn't, without looking up what you're doing, and somehow that's not your fault?
If you try to use a fork as an outlet cleaner don't complain that the outlet sucks when you're getting electrocuted.
Thats also possible with appstream. But unless the repos go and people just install flatpaks, stuff like this will happen.