https://mullvad.net/en/help/install-mullvad-app-linux

Trying to install VPN and these are the instructions Mullvad is giving me. This is ridiculous. There must be a more simple way. I know how to follow the instructions but I have no idea what I’m doing here. Can’t I just download a file and install it? I’m on Ubuntu.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The average Windows user doesn’t know what a terminal is, let alone use it. Whereas in Linux every user knows what a terminal is and has used it at least a handful of times.

    Some distros don’t have an app store, just the terminal.

    • ILikeBoobies
      1·
      1 year ago

      The average Windows user knows that command prompt exists

      The average Linux user comes from Android and has no clue about terminal

      • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Bro, I’m an IT Support Technician and Sysadmin by profession. Trust me when I tell you the average user has never seen the command line.

        Move a shortcut on their desktop and they freak out because they think the pc deleted all their work. No way in hell they would touch a terminal.

        • ILikeBoobies
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m aware, someone asked how to download a video so i told them just paste the url in command prompt (yt-dlp) and they said it’s not worth it

          But no one I know even knows how to get to CLI on Android