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@digikitty_x86 especially since it doesn't even work as well, imho

inkscape's pretty decent tho

@digikitty_x86 i'm happier pirating adobe software than using an image manipulation program named after a character from pulp fiction named after an ableist slur by a couple of manchildren fossy advocates who won't back down on it even when large swaths of people including in the education sector wanting to use free software want a more adequate name for a gnu image manipulator program

@digikitty_x86 everything bad i find with windows is hackable out and i'm not paying for it, so, free convenience for me

i understand feeling moral about it but i just like having a tool that works

@digikitty_x86 i have enjoyed my computers with pirated copies of windows fairly well

happy pacman syu day everybody hope you emerge from it with a system that still boots

@digikitty_x86 i expect them to work and not be stuck in dependency hell and need and entire scorched earth reinstall to work, for example

i've reinstalled linux systems far more than windows

@digikitty_x86 maybe we expect different things from computers

big disclaimer if you take anything i post too seriously thats tyour'e own godtamn fault bucko

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maybe .exes were the better binary executable format all along. linux has a lot to learn from windows it turns out

@digikitty_x86 a system that doesn't work over the convenience of downloading a file and duoble clickig it like a got dammn .exe ????

@frost i solved my problems installing windows 10 where A/V broadcasting stuff just worked instead of having to pore over config files

@frost maybe it's just not compatible with ubuntu. the flatpak installer thing kept spinning and never would load for me. but graphical interfaces are so 1992, i should've tried the commandline instead, i know

what sort of brain fog made snap and flatpak look like more appealing propositions to linux users than appimages?

@arielmt honestly between snap and flatpak i think both are egregious mistakes and the linux development community needs to use a "non-free" computer again to figure out what is it that "normal" people expect of them

@arielmt honestly between snap and flatpak i think both are egregious mistakes and the linux development community needs to use a "non-free" computer again to figure out what is it that "normal" people expect of them

@arielmt i never liked it because of how much resources it took to do anything and barely ever worked for me, but i wonder if those things improved since the last time i tried

i ended up just compiling things from source

If you finally found the solution to your coding problem in a deep comment or something after having dozens of tabs open, you should write about it in your own blog.

Really. Describe the problem in your own words and the solution for it, even if the solution seems really obvious now. Doesn’t matter. Give credit and whatever, but use your own words because you will be surprised at how many people will land on it.

Write the blog post you wish you had found.

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