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[–] GustavoM 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

the legit question then is why isn't uget relying on wget

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hey, i wanted to ask that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is Linux, what did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This is exactly what I expected and that isn't a good thing to increase market share. The answer to how often the average end user opens a terminal is "no".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

that's arguable, if there is a "market share" increase but users are not actually empowered nor use solutions that improve the situation for us all, e.g privacy, then what is even the point of such an increase?

I'm not saying everybody installing Linux for the first time should rely on the command line but IMHO being afraid or averse to it is not actually helpful for a deeper understanding and thus improving the situation.

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

... and that is why the average user stays an average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago

Thats a CLI program...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would you mind clarifying why? I use File Centipede and it's been working perfect for now.

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

I didn't hear about centipede.

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

why not curl? it also supports gopher 😉

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

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