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A bit of an elitist gatekeeper, are we?
It’s a screenshot of a post by someone that fits that description. The OP here tried to show that but it isn’t clear.
The original post is a perfectly humorous meme on the idea that “maybe enabling users doing things via gui isn’t a horrible idea”.
Posting a screenshot of someone else’s post, with a clearly negative note, in hopes of provoking… What? A hateful echo chamber around it?
There’s nothing funny here. It essentially just boils down to “look at how dumb this reasonable opinion exaggerated for comedic effect is” which is little more than toxic slander looking for validation.
Average redditor who didn’t grow up to understand that opinions exist:
I personally hate it when software has ‘linux support’ as one out-of-date .deb file and a .tar.gz
Meeh, if you can compile it or make it run on modern day libraries, who cares 🤷.
But it’s correct. It’s time to move on.
Ew, what’s that website?
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Xctract zee file
xzf
I don’t understand.
How is it hard to remember: “eXtract File” = “tar xf …”? If tar is gZipped - it’s “tar xzf …”.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen tarball that wouldn’t work with one of these two commands.Usually the distro has tar in automatic and automatically detects which compression flag to use so
tar xf ...usually just worksJust use
tar xafto auto-detect the format. (Mnemonic: “extract a file”)
eXtract Zi Files - xzf
sudo emerge app-misc/i-love-gentoo
double click exe file
10 page wizard, with malware boxed checked by default
Being real, why DON’T distros just have the ability to do the installation if you double-click whatever file is downloaded?
I feel like we should have either option - download and double-click or just use the command line.
I mean, what else would double-clicking a .tar.gz file or an appimage do than install it (yes, I know, look into the archive, but really - how often is that the desired thing to do)? So, therefore, why don’t we just have it install the files that are downloaded?
This is a legit question btw, I really don’t know the answer
How would the distro tell if the tar.gz is a program or just a bunch of compressed files? I tend to use tar files for compression rather than for distributing or installing software
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Yes, but the header of the file says it’s a binary, that is why it gives you the option to run as a program or open as a file. Because the OS knows that you can do either with binaries.
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Some file managers might add the +x automatically if you choose to run the binary through the desktop environment (not the terminal)… or ask you if you’d like to mark the file as an executable (i.e. add +x to permissions).
You can’t do it the same way with tar, what are you gonna execute, tar is neither a script or an ELF binary. It’s like asking for a zip file to be executable, doesn’t make sense. You can change the extension to .exe, but it won’t run, it’s not an exe, no MZ header, nothing 🤷.
Do you not know what a tar.gz is? it’s like a zip file. how are you supposed to install it automatically? the structure inside is unknown.
also, it’s commonly used for things like backups.
A .tar.gz is a regular archive, the file manager shouldn’t assume it’s a program. Also, how do you expect it to work? There’s no general rule for archives. As for appimages, one of their selling points is that you can run them portably, so it shouldn’t install by default, but run. However, a right click install option would be nice.
curl pipe bash lol
