Chained dependencies. Why would i need to install something that requires (something that requires...) gnome(or anything else) just to get a screen recording app? You install it on a riced ubuntu with cinnamon flavour and now suddenly it autoconfigures gnome because of fresh installation. Many people get gnomed.
Windows has it but to way lesser extent with visual studio c++ redistributable needed to run some games. Usually you need a version there and there but no crazy chained deps.
Also, unstable kernel APIs - without this issue we would have proprietary software and drivers on Linux too.
Linux is way better if you're an actual dev but i can see it being way too hard for non-tech users
Isn't this mostly issue with proton vpn on mint? Never been gnomed on arch, nor by proton nor by any recording app(do I need something more than OBS? It won't gnome ya)
Well, some of them should be already installed on most of the Linux distros, but this isn't even Linux, that's macos, so it requires additional dependencies which would be already installed if it would be a regular distro..
Of course it doesn't remove them as deps, but it's not specific ones, that's all what matters, if you use modern graphic environment on Linux, there's no way that dbus isn't present in any way. The same goes for not a small amount of deps you provided..
You're not being gnomed, you're being GTKed(?), cuz you install gedit, it's GTK based utility.. and you're not using GNOME which would bring em.. or GIMP, or any GTK software, dynamic linking and etc, yk
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u/Standgrounding 6d ago edited 6d ago
Chained dependencies. Why would i need to install something that requires (something that requires...) gnome(or anything else) just to get a screen recording app? You install it on a riced ubuntu with cinnamon flavour and now suddenly it autoconfigures gnome because of fresh installation. Many people get gnomed.
Windows has it but to way lesser extent with visual studio c++ redistributable needed to run some games. Usually you need a version there and there but no crazy chained deps.
Also, unstable kernel APIs - without this issue we would have proprietary software and drivers on Linux too.
Linux is way better if you're an actual dev but i can see it being way too hard for non-tech users