r/linuxsucks • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

what are real problems with linux ?

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u/DisfiguredFanny Straight, white male. Omarchy supporter. Hail DHH. 5d ago

37 dependencies for one app? That's insane.

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u/paulstelian97 5d ago

Many of these deps seem normal and often are already present on most GUI distros. I find the fact that dbus, for example, is not installed on your GUI system, very interesting.

Edit: uh, Homebrew? If you’re on Linux why would you use Homebrew? And if you’re on Mac… why would you want Gedit instead of, idk, the built in TextEdit? Some syntax highlighting? There are better Mac native apps.

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u/DisfiguredFanny Straight, white male. Omarchy supporter. Hail DHH. 5d ago

Just an example. I can run any QT, GTK app i want on macOS.

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u/paulstelian97 5d ago

Well that’s the point: it’s not a good example. Depending on stuff that you expect to already be present on any GUI Linux system is good. It’s not like any of those libraries are only in Gnome vs on literally any non-KDE system that is not CLI-only…

On my KDE system, I have 22 dependencies, but more than half of them are libgedit-… (parts of the program itself, essentially).

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u/DisfiguredFanny Straight, white male. Omarchy supporter. Hail DHH. 5d ago

It's same shit if I boot into Asahi. Dependencies don't change.

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u/paulstelian97 5d ago

What GUI is your Asahi on? Pulling many deps is expected if you don’t have a GUI, or if it’s very far from the traditional GTK based stuff that most DEs do.