Why it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop 1. Install Linux. Works great! 2. Stumble upon interesting software on GitHub. This looks really cool! You get excited.
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3. Tackle 37-step process to build or install involving setenv, sandboxing,
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You're nervous about being asked to install deps via CPAN, pip and gem all for the same piece of software, but running the coolest software requires sacrifice, right?
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4. Install/build fails with a mysterious error. 5. Google mysterious error. 6. Google: "Ah, you're running an old version of Python/Go/Cobol/WTFBBQ!" "Ah fuck, here we go", you're thinking...
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7. Update Python/Go/Cobol/WTFBBQ 8. Package manager: "Sorry, fuck off, this is the newest version you can get" 9. Try to install a newer version manually 10. Install/build fails with a mysterious error.
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11. Google mysterious error. 12. It appears newer versions of Python/Go/Cobol/WTFBBQ aren't compatible with the CurmudgeonOS distro due to issues with dependencies, paths and people with dirty auras. You consider replacing CurmudgeonOS with HipsterOS.
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13. You Google mysterious error + people with CurmudgeonOS 14. Yes, people have made this software work with your situation, but solutions generally involve chroot, docker and lemon water detox. Is it really worth a multi-day colon cleansing to get this software running?
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You begin to suspect this software has only ever worked on one system... the developer's. But how could that be? It's been starred over 3000 times!
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15. You Google other similar software. 16. You find a Chrome extension that does the same thing. It takes < 3 seconds to install and works perfectly on ChromeOS/MacOS/Windows/Linux.
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If number 8 happens to you a lot, your package manager / distro / repos suck. You should definitely switch to HipsterOS :P
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Replying to @David3141593
Yes, but I hear HipsterOS is less stable than CurmudgeonOS, which is even less stable than PricklyFishOS!
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