this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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[–] [email protected] 195 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Linux users install chrome now...?

[–] [email protected] 149 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well they already had firefox installed it seems

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Tutorials like this that are really simple might be a good way yo introduce the idea that Linux does not need to be difficult or complex.

Chrome is so common and it demonstrates that you can use something familiar on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Of course. The GUI package manager is the first thing I always show people. I was still just making a joke though

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Real Linux users use curl and render the page in their imagination.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imagination? That's bloat.

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[–] prettybunnys 39 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 110 points 7 months ago (11 children)

it's always important to install chrome so google can see the first website you visit before you uninstall is www.firefox com/download

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

But... Firefox is always already installed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

Ah yes, the bait-and-switch strategy

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Was going to upvote then saw them install chrome. Just why? Use Firefox or Chromium

[–] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Typical Gnome user.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Literally no Linux user ever....

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I typically end up installing chrome for the odd website that does require it. Firefox is still my daily driver on all platforms though, not sure what Mozilla is thinking with their future plans.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

They already have that, as you can see in the clip.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago

Why are you showing people how to deliberately install spyware?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago

Chrome? Never! Only firefox. Eventually chromium.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bro this is like pineapple on pizza, you know some people like it, but you also know that is objectively fucking WRONG. WTF

These days I wouldn't dare to even chrome my windows.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pineapple is delicious on pizza thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Chrome is literally the same shit as Chromium but with (more) spyware. Like, there are no other added features. And some people still choose to download Chrome. WHY!?!?!?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Is there a punchline to this I’m missing?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Steamymoomilk 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

no, no, no its too easy, Wheres the terminals? and the long compile time.

(this post was written partially from and intel compute stick running gentoo, which started compiling 7hours ago and still is)

mmmm tasty 2GB of ram

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago

Installed Chrome via GUI

kinda sus

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Aurenkin 38 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Linux users uninstalling browser: basically same as what the op shows.

Windows users uninstalling browser

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

21 minutes. Mother of God.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

and 22 seconds in: now most of these methods don't work

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Now show how much trouble windows users need to go through to remove S-mode because Microsoft considers chrome to be a "potential security risk", which... Yeah, it kinda is!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Literally Firefox in the dock...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I don't know why so many windows users find it so difficult to install software on linux.

Use the app store like you do on your phone

And yet, they keep opening a browser and searching "how do I install X".

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Or, you know

$ packagemanagerofchoice firefox
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[–] where_am_i 21 points 7 months ago

We found the imposter!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

apt install 'WTF IS THIS SHIT?'

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (6 children)

No i download the source code to Chromium and i build it from source with Widevine.

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