snixyz123@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWindows compatibility is insane!lemmy.mlimagemessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down131
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minus-squareShady_Shiroe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-21 year agoLinux: User: Can you install this 50 year old program? Linux: it’s already installed
minus-squareversion_unsorted@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoUser: Linux can you install this software from this ancient obscure operating system?
minus-squaredustojnikhummer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoNo you can’t because the dependency doesn’t exit anymore.
minus-squareeltimablo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoHave you heard to Good Word of our Lord and Savior, AppImage?
minus-squareJohanno@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThen compile it from the sources
minus-squaredustojnikhummer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down8·1 year agoYes because that is more user friendly than running an executable through a built in compatibility layer… suure
minus-squareReakDuck@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoWho tf wants usability when shit just has a solution no matter what. Additionally its an old program that a normal person wouldn’t even try. On windows shit just doesn’t work and the solutions are most of the time not even existing.
minus-squarepressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoGrep is from 1973 so yeah.
Linux:
User: Can you install this 50 year old program?
Linux: it’s already installed
User: Linux can you install this software from this ancient obscure operating system?
No you can’t because the dependency doesn’t exit anymore.
Have you heard to Good Word of our Lord and Savior, AppImage?
Then compile it from the sources
Yes because that is more user friendly than running an executable through a built in compatibility layer… suure
Who tf wants usability when shit just has a solution no matter what. Additionally its an old program that a normal person wouldn’t even try.
On windows shit just doesn’t work and the solutions are most of the time not even existing.
Grep is from 1973 so yeah.