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      11 months ago

      That’s the lemmy echo chamber. Poll a hundred people on how to get a program onto a computer without a browser and I’d be surprised if five people answered something other than a disk or that it’s impossible

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        11 months ago

        other than a disk

        These days, they are probably not even going to answer with that. Optical media is almost dead now.

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        Even saying “with a package manager” it’s much easier to have a browser to make a search to know what you want to enter to install using the package manager!

        I’m sure many Linux users would be dead in the water if they were provided a computer with a distro without a browser/GUI package manager and no alternative way to access the internet.

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      Where the fuck would that be a popular opinion?

      Quick! You need to install a program, but you can’t remember the exact name of it. You have no browser installed nor a GUI package manager. What do you do?

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        There is no situation where you need to install a package while having no Browser installed.

        My point is that you should install the browser you want, no have preinstalled programs you may not want or live without a browser.

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          Okay, how are you going to install a browser if you don’t know what to type? Sure, I know FF is Mozilla.Firefox, but not everyone does. And besides, I actually want Vivaldi(…only as an example) instead, which I don’t know the package name for. Without a pre-existing browser or external help, how am I supposed to install Vivaldi?

          I’m not disagreeing there should be options on OS setup, firefox being pre-installed with no input is barely better than Edge being pre-installed, but no browser at all by default is just stupid for most people. If we’re going with the idea of options on setup, the no browser at all option should exist, but only if it’s behind at least 1 but preferably 2 “Are you absolutely sure?” confirmation checks.