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  • yt-dlp is amazing, but not everyone likes to use CLI tools (and, looking down the thread, not everyone prefers native packets as they may cause dependency issues and need extra tools for permissions control).

    Even in a geeky Linux space, many people just want to push a button in a nice interface and get what they want. This app provides just that.

    Abandon elitism, embrace variety. And use the tools you prefer - after all, plenty of Linux video/music downloaders have yt-dlp under the hood, and I use it on a regular.







  • Su often takes more time and is more involvedz even if it’s a difference between very little effort and no effort at all.

    For example, I update and install apps through CLI about once a week, and I’d rather just bang the sudo <update command> than go su, enter root credentials, and only then go for what I wanted in the first place.






  • That’s one of my gripes with Arch, too. It takes too much manual interaction on an everyday basis, it’s not a “set it and forget it” kind of system.

    To some, sometimes lesser, extent it also translates to its derivatives, be it Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro or whatever strikes one’s fancy.



  • These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.

    Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.

    Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.


  • Allero@lemmy.todaytolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldArch btw...
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    Arch can be configured without archinstall in 20 minutes by a YouTube video even if you’re a grandma with 0 technical skills.

    Let’s all stop pretending that having it manually installed means anything and just use whatever does it for us. Like, well, Endeavour.





  • Interesringly, ostree didn’t solve the VPN issue for me, and for others too. Works fine on all mutable distros I tried, though (including regular Fedora editions).

    Can’t remember how it went with Wine. Besides, as far as I remember, installing native packets via ostree drastically increases update size and adds extra entries to manage, putting a limit on how much stuff you can reasonably install this way.

    With that, I figured I’d rather take mutable system and apply good practices to it whenever possible. Snapshots? Check. Flatpaks? Always preferred. Sane management for native app repos? Yes. And with that, I never had my system fail me.

    My use case can be a bit rare and specific, but there are plenty of different “rare issues” out there, and there’s nothing more frustrating than figuring out your distro doesn’t work with thing X and nothing can be done about it.

    Immutable distros are cool, and hopefully it will all get resolved in a sane way. But to me, we’re not there yet.


  • Last time I touched immutables I couldn’t run software for censorship-resistant VPNs. Regular services are all blocked in my area (even more sophisticated ones like Mullvad and onion-routed Proton tunnels), so it takes a more involved software that doesn’t work on immutables. That was a dealbreaker for me personally.

    Besides, some things work better as native packages, not Flatpaks or Distroboxes. Wine is a simple example - sure, you can use Flatpaks like Bottles or Lutris or PortProton, but if you just want Wine without bells and whistles, native packet works much better than Flatpak.