I started daily driving Linux since I left school this year and used it before but mainly windows because school wanted us to run Word, Teams, etc. Today I wanted to play games and haven’t set up my device for gaming and didn’t want to download the game twice (good internet). Like a good PC user I wanted to do my updates. It really sucks on windows. I had three windows updates to make, one crashed. It rebooted my device 4 times. Also I needed to update other drivers and applications. Now I really appreciate package managers more than ever before.

  • om1k@sopuli.xyz
    64·
    1 year ago

    Before switching to Linux I used to think: “Linux users really use the terminal to install apps?? So archaic”. Now I can’t be more grateful of being able to install everything from the terminal.

    • Grass@geddit.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      I can’t even bring myself to use the gui update tools on distros that have them. It just feels like doing anything with extra weight strapped on to every limb.

        • irmoz@reddthat.com
          2·
          1 year ago

          Nobara has a similar tool. Now when i see the package manager’s update icon in the tray, I just hit the update script instead.

          • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m on Fedora Silverblue (via uBlue), get the best of both worlds which is quite nice - I run just update in a terminal and it updates the system image (and any rpm-ostree overrides), updates all Flatpaks, and then for all of my Distrobox containers it runs that distro’s package manager update command.

            Never got a chance to use Mint’s update tool, and was only on Nobara for a couple of days, so its been nice to finally be able to experience a nice “all-in-one updater”.

        • Grass@geddit.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Opensuse and a couple other distros I tested can do this too right out of the notification panel which is thankfully easy enough for my parents and grandparents. I still end up using the “quake style terminal” most of the time and just flatpak through the notification sometimes.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      Pamac on Manjaro is great even without using the terminal. Pretty simple and solid GUI everything considered

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    272·
    1 year ago

    Windows: “Time for updates! Stop everything you’re doing and please wait…please wait…please wait…please wait…”

    Linux: Update notifier pings on desktop

    Opens a terminal

    sudo apt update && apt upgrade

    *Goes back to whatever user was doing while updates install… *

    • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      More like

      “Oh snaps! I haven’t updated my distro since 6 months ago!”

      “…”

      “anyway”

    • molcap@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I did that yesterday and Ubuntu 23.04 crashed, it only showed a black screen with a cursor and nothing worked. I had to force shutdown and reboot. It’s the first time it has happened to me. Maybe an Nvidia issue?

    • Oscar@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Something i especially appreciate about winget us that it will “index” (or whatever you want to call it) software that was installed outside of it. For example if I install app XYZ through an .msi setup file, I can update it using winget.

      So it seems I can also use scoop or chocolatey to install new software and then keep managing them through winget.

  • sep@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    Depending on the games you play. Steam on linux really works well. I have not had a dualboot windows partition for games in several years.
    There are some games with windows only drm/anticheat, that do not work. I just do not buy them. There are enough games that works well on linux that I do not care.

  • JoshCodes@programming.dev
    8·
    1 year ago

    Best advice I ever got regarding Windows: delay updates for a few days. Sometimes Windows updates break the device, but if you’re part of the crowd that delays for a day or two, they might have fixed the issue by then.

    • allywilson@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was using Winget, then I realised everything is user specific, so I went straight back to Chocolatey.

      • mvirts@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like chocolatey but my IT department called me one time asking me to please stop running so many powershell scripts 😅 like wtf you gave me local admin am I not allowed to use it? No one has complained about winget yet

  • chris-hayes@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Consider giving Linux gaming a try! That was me until Linux gaming started improving a lot (driven in part by Valve’s Steam Deck which runs Linux).

    Some if not most of my Steam games work without issue on my Ubuntu, other launchers like Battle.net, Epic’s launcher, and Riot’s launcher are one-click install with Bottles or Lutris. This year on my Ubuntu 23.04 I’ve been playing: OW2, Last of Us, Super Meat Boy, SpiritFarer, LoL, F1 2023, Okami, Celeste, A Hat of Time, and Cyberpunk 2077.

  • b9chomps@beehaw.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have a Windows install for some games and use WingetUI to install Software and keep my programs up to date. It’s a GUI for Winget, Scoop, Chocolatey, …

  • YassKwiin@rammy.site
    1·
    1 year ago

    Office and Teams work fine on office.com if you’re properly licensed. They probably even have pseudo local apps for Linux, otherwise they will within the year.