It’s quite useful for stuff like PROGRAM and Program in the same directory where PROGRAM is the program itself and Program is some unrelated files about the program. Bad example, but the case stands.
It’s quite useful for stuff like PROGRAM and Program in the same directory where PROGRAM is the program itself and Program is some unrelated files about the program. Bad example, but the case stands.
I’m saying this for years, but a) it’s quite late (seems like a 1990s issue) and b) OpenNIC is a bit of a joke atm (but support it anyways)
ICANN never should’ve been a creature of US-NTIA, but of the UN. The US has no right to decide for the digital world how everyone communiticates. No one really should (apart from about stuff like CSAM).
I’m not gonna fire up Windows (Update) for this, but shouldn’t the bootloader handle this?
Arch Linux doesn’t have a store AFAIK.
I don’t use APT-based distributions or store-based software aquisition, so I don’t know about that, but I see how that lessens my point. I was just using a steam installation as an example for context, you could replace it with anything with sketchy licenses.
I have no experience with DNF, but both APT and Pacman are not the best solutions for beginners, simply because their extensibility relies on weirdness like PPAs and the AUR or even just different repositories.
One example would be installing Steam:
APT sudo add-apt multiverse && sudo apt update && sudo apt install steam
Pacman sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf && sudo pacman -Syu steam
[Enabling multilib by uncommenting two lines in package manager file]
This is just partially the fault of the Linux distributions, package managers or package repositories (licensing issues), but the ease of installing could be better even with the legal issues afoot.
Sure, to us experienced with changing configuration of package managers this seems a bit lazy or untrve, but for those who are new to Linux or software configuration in general, these instructions can look like crawling into the equivalent of Windows Registry simply to install Steam.
It’s one thing when they have legacy hardcode mountains preventing a standardisation, but I really dislike developers who just disagree with the standard and take away the choice as well and justify it with some made up problems with that standard.
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/864
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735285
etc…
Archlinux Wiki even has an article about those.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory#Hardcoded
It’s not about software. Program, PROGRAM were just placeholders for content. I know you can think more abstract and argue in better faith than this.