I genuinely do not understand how you could run into issues with a basic program unless you’re attempting to install from source code or something. Any basiclinic system should have a package manager and you literally just say install this and it just goes.

The only time that I would have the chance to hit the kind of problems you described or ever seen anyone hit those problems is when installing directly from a repository on GitHub, straight from Source code, or attempting to use a downloaded dpkg or random wget line from reddit instead of just using the package manager

Uhhh, maybe if we are talking about back in like 2001?

I literally manage a fleet of linux end user machines and i can’t remember the last time installing software was more than just "pacman -Syu <nameofprogram> (yes they run arch BTW)

Why are anti cli people so dishonest about how hard it is? Now, if you are trying to get involved in like machine learning or something then yes that’s an absolute nightmare of errors and installing python packages and other nonsense but that’s true no matter what platform you’re on and whether you have a GUI or not. Even all the fancy gui installers for stuff like stable diffusion are a constant nightmares of I’m not working because fuck you that’s not unique to cli

Unless you use Fedora, because I have decided that dnf stands for “do not fucking” so you tell your computer do not fucking install Firefox and then it does it anyway because it has Authority issues

You need to remember how Tech illiterate the vast majority of the market is. If someone gets a pop-up asking for an app to have permission that they aren’t even going to read it so they’re going to look for the allow buttons that they can continue trying to use their app.

They don’t know or care what’s happening and trying to explain it to them generally makes them tune out, no amount of more detailed permission message or anything is going to change that for anyone except people of higher Tech literacy which is the majority of what you’re going to find here on lemmy

Not defending Tesla or anything but let’s not pretend like the majority of people on the road looking at their phone would not have done the exact same thing

Probably because it’s kind of a bad experience? I say that as someone that uses it regularly for multiple apps. I’m not a fan, the search alone is basically useless unless you know the exact title of what you’re looking for and even then it’s sometimes not the first result for some reason.

I’m sure that someone will reply to this with some suggestion for some alternative front end for the fdroid store that supposedly fixes that which will just further highlight the issues with it of fragmentation

Lspci and lsusb will help you match up with the list

That is exactly how people think the market works. Only go up never down. And then they wonder why companies constantly Drive their products into the dirt trying to make as much money as possible