Post AE4UI8t9Ft9Er7l62K by b847c1960@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AE4U6uSqXmYew06GPY by PeterCxy@sn.angry.im
       2021-12-04T20:28:20Z
       
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       Every time I see people reading Linux guides that tell them to unnecessarily mess around with stuff managed by the package manager I just can't help but cringe. The saddest thing is, that's what most Linux "guides" are.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4UBpiJdL9peIgQMq by PeterCxy@sn.angry.im
       2021-12-04T20:29:15Z
       
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       Like, they tell people to put custom fonts into /usr/share/fonts, or install applications manually to /usr/lib, while you can totally do that just in your user home directory instead, which is much easier and does not even need root.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4UFwXUCP0lyYZsOG by PeterCxy@sn.angry.im
       2021-12-04T20:29:58Z
       
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       Or they tell people to install a DKMS module manually when there are packages available from the package manager. This is just asking for trouble once the kernel API is changed.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4UI8t9Ft9Er7l62K by b847c1960@mastodon.online
       2021-12-04T20:30:22Z
       
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       @PeterCxy i mean, many articles are stating to pipe downloaded script via wget and execute it right away to bootstrap something. Yuck.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4UIZCXQQ6gSn1wrw by PeterCxy@sn.angry.im
       2021-12-04T20:30:24Z
       
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       Some don't even tell people to use DKMS and instead just compile the module manually.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4UXtcbmhQy8kXBOi by PeterCxy@sn.angry.im
       2021-12-04T20:33:13Z
       
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       @b847c1960 And 90% of those scripts (when they are not malicious -- which is the biggest concern here) just download a bunch of junk, then compile them and put them in /usr, without considering what happens if ABI is broken during an upgrade or whatever.
       
 (DIR) Post #AE4p5p2lJJfes1DpFg by b847c1960@mastodon.online
       2021-12-05T00:23:25Z
       
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       @PeterCxy true story. On the other side, i wonder how much money are those people earning from the ads displayed on those websites. I definitely see much better trend in which individuals are writing goog quality content but then again i see a lot of portals where news can be a bit... Just for the ads?Not generalizing here but i am glad that i am not the only one thinking that those articles are not really helping.