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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That’s the lemmy echo chamber. Poll a hundred people on how to get a program onto a computer without a browser and I’d be surprised if five people answered something other than a disk or that it’s impossible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

other than a disk

These days, they are probably not even going to answer with that. Optical media is almost dead now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thumb drive then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Even saying "with a package manager" it's much easier to have a browser to make a search to know what you want to enter to install using the package manager!

I'm sure many Linux users would be dead in the water if they were provided a computer with a distro without a browser/GUI package manager and no alternative way to access the internet.