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Re:My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age by Gareth321 on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:35AM (#30669830)
"The vast majority" of applications having packages doesn't satisfy my requirement: never ever, for any reason *ever*, having to use the CLI. The requirement is clear, unambiguous, and shared by the vast majority of PC users.

For the record, at least in my case, it's certainly not the "vast majority" of applications. The following applications don't have easy to install packages. Even when there is, as in the case of Calibre-Web, Transmission, and NZBGet, they often require CLI configuration and/or intervention.

* Readarr

* Openbooks

* PhotoPrism

* Prowlarr

* Jackett

* FlareSolverr

And these are just the applications I could spot in five minutes.

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Re:My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age by pizza234 on Monday March 14, 2022 @08:13AM (#30671466)
By "vast majority" I mean that the standard repositories (which optionally includes extra repositories, like the Canonical Partner one) includes hundreds of thousands of programs, and GUIs are provided by the distro (e.g. the former Ubuntu Software Center).

I've checked several of the programs you've provided, and here's a report:

- Readarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- PhotoPrism: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Prowlarr: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Openbooks: has docker image(s) in Docker Hub

- Jackett: has native linux binary in the official Github releases

- FlareSolverr: has native linux binary in the official Github releases

- Transmission: it's commonly provided in the Linux distro repositories

Those who refuse to do such a minimal search and/or better look the Github releases page, they definitely deserve to stay on Windows, rather than spreading misinformation.

If a program doesn't to have a package for a given platform (no doubt about those cases), it's a developer's resources problem (and essentially, an O/S popularity one). It'd be ridiculous to say that having to manually install a certain program on Mac is inherent in Mac itself.

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Re:My transition from Windows to Linux in an anti-customer age by 3np on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:19AM (#30670138)
Pray tell, what kind of cli configuration/intervention would be required for transmission?

You should just be able to install transmission-gtk and be off.

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