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[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 20 points 4 months ago (65 children)

I want to like Linux and leave Windows, but when I say that I don't want to be forced to use CLI/terminal because I don't live in the 1970s, people get angry at me.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 39 points 4 months ago (20 children)

If all you do is web browse and play games, you should be able to use Linux without the CLI just fine.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (14 children)

I installed Ubuntu in a VM to torrent with mulvad. I had to go to the command line. Worse was googling gave multiple contradictory instructions that further reading yielded "deprecated".

I made it work because I've been doing it for 30 years. Anyone else would be better with Windows where it just works.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Huh, why not just use QBittorrent? I've never even felt the need to reach for the command line with torrents (Linux ISOs of course) because it works so well.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes it was QBitTorrent. The problem was getting mulvad out of the VM while letting QBitTorrent use a local network share to save files. I needed everything to be static ips.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Would you have been able to create your specific use case on Windows? Because most people don't try "getting mulvard out of the VM". That's the type of thing that's in my experience usually (I don't know about this case specifically - that's why I'm asking) a lot easier on Linux than on Windows (not that it's easy)

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The reason I brought it up was because it worked without problems in a Windows VM. But I really didn't want to run Windows so I worked on Linux until it worked.

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