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[–] sphfaar 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all programs work, And in Linux you can forget the terminal with the stores that use flathub, much easier and safer than the shitty exe/MSI installers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who would want an app store on their desktop? Are you 12 and only ever used a smartphone?

[–] sphfaar 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I fucking don't, I use yay or whatever, I'm talking about you, if you really don't want to see the terminal there is the app store that uses flathub in any pre-configured DE for linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad you found something that works for you!

I'm old school haha I just download programs from the internet myself, they either come as zips or exes and they install directly on my computer without any issues. No terminus, app stores, etc. and no problems!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not? They're convenient and don't require the use of a terminal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Naw that's okay for like a telephone where you just want like a calculator or some shit but on a desktop you go to Google and just find the program website and download it