this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
474 points (79.6% liked)

linuxmemes

21160 readers
1532 users here now

Hint: :q!

Sister communities:

Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
    • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
    • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

    • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    [email protected]
    474
    Linux users when (media1.tenor.com)
    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
    204 comments fedilink hide all child comments
     
    you are viewing a single comment's thread
    view the rest of the comments
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.

    Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?

    Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.

    In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.

    Sure... Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.

    I'm keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can't afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.

    I think my simple issue here is... I'm not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Supposing that you're asking in good faith, the answer appears to be to make a Lemmy post. There is a fair overlap with the HAM and *nix communities, especially the PubNixes. Chirp is fairly well-known so, package manager is likely the way to go.

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

    Don't know why I could not see this repply until today. It's been ascertained that chirp is not in the repo for Raspian Linux, so indeed that option never worked.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    My home instance has been having federation issues, unfortunately.

    load more comments (10 replies)