This image was created by /u/kuebic@discuss.tchncs.de for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.

Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 day ago

    I am new to linux Mint and mullvad had an update ready, so i clicked update. It just stayed downloading on 0% for like 5 minutes, so i remembered this ISN’T WINDOWS. So i opened terminal and sudo apt upgrade and Mullvad was updated and new version installed.

    It’s weird how windows makes things looks easy, but then they don’t work well. Linux makes things look difficult, but it they work well.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      31·
      17 hours ago

      Not exactly. The GUI variant of the updater that you tried also didn’t work well.

      CLI mostly works ok (unless a bug causes your DE to be uninstalled if you try to install steam), but GUI is very hit-and-miss.

      Just the other day I had a bug in XFCE where I want to scale up the contents of the screen. So I use the GUI display config tool, set the scale to 0.5 (because for some reason they scale the wrong way round, <1 enlarges, >2 makes things smaller). It does work, the display gets scaled up.

      After I’m done I want to scale back down and the GUI display config tool just locks up on startup and only shows a blank window with a few blank dropdowns.

      A bit of googleing later I found the config file where I can change it back and once I changed the scaling to 1 again, the GUI tool worked again.

      I’ve been using Linux exclusively for many years now, but without google I couldn’t have fixed that.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      to be fair if it had an update button, that should have been enough for it. you don’t need to run commands because this is the Linux Way, but because better solutions are not there yet

      • [object Object]@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I mean, aptitude and Synaptic update packages or the whole system fine. It’s just that Mullvad has no business trying to do that itself.