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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the legit question then is why isn't uget relying on wget

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, i wanted to ask that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Linux, what did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is exactly what I expected and that isn't a good thing to increase market share. The answer to how often the average end user opens a terminal is "no".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that's arguable, if there is a "market share" increase but users are not actually empowered nor use solutions that improve the situation for us all, e.g privacy, then what is even the point of such an increase?

I'm not saying everybody installing Linux for the first time should rely on the command line but IMHO being afraid or averse to it is not actually helpful for a deeper understanding and thus improving the situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

... and that is why the average user stays an average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Thats a CLI program...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would you mind clarifying why? I use File Centipede and it's been working perfect for now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't hear about centipede.

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

I just use wget with some bash scripts when neccesary

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

writing wget https://url is that hard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Persepolis Motrix Axel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

why not curl? it also supports gopher 😉