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Miakoda

@DXMacGuffin Um...
sudo chmod [the perms and file]
and
sudo [gui or terminal editor of your choice] /whatever/effing/file.conf

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3 Jun 2023 at 19:20 | Open on pdx.social
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Turkey MacGuffin :damnified:

@hellomiakoda

I shouldn't need to open a command prompt and change permissions to make a minor change to a config file.

It's equally foreign to me when Linux folks concluded the opposite of what I did - that Linux is easier than Windows.

3 Jun 2023 at 19:27 | Open on metalhead.club
Miakoda

@DXMacGuffin I've had my very tech illiterate mother on Linux. My idiot former roommate who couldn't figure out the TV he used as a monitor switched to a different input after a power failure was on #Linux.
Yes, #Linux is easier than Windows for many many use cases.
I'm also running Linux nicely on computers Windows users threw away, because Windows uses FAR too many resources, most of them involving listening to you and watching you to go get ads for you.

3 Jun 2023 at 19:36 | Open on pdx.social
Miakoda

@DXMacGuffin My whole job involves toiling away at Windows problems I either would never have on #Linux, or could fix in a couple lines on the terminal if I did have them.
Go ahead and make FireFox your default app for the stuff it supports on Windows, then do the same on Linux. Do that and tell me straight faced Windows is easier than Linux.

3 Jun 2023 at 19:39 | Open on pdx.social
Tim Ward ⭐πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ”Ά #FBPE

@hellomiakoda @DXMacGuffin Windows is easier than Linux. I never have to use the command line (what a 1980s throw-back that is! - GUIs were invented for a reason!). (Unless I'm doing software development.)

3 Jun 2023 at 19:56 | Open on c.im
Miakoda replied to Tim Ward ⭐πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ”Ά #FBPE

@TimWardCam @DXMacGuffin You can use #Linux without the command line. Most of us simply don't want to.

3 Jun 2023 at 19:58 | Open on pdx.social
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