Transcript
Screenshot of Octopi Package Manager installed on CachyOS (previously the default before being replaced by Shelly). OP has searched for microsoft-edge. No results are returned.
OP has drawn a circle around a button in the image of an alien head with an arrow pointing to it. Under the arrow is “???”.
Caption at the bottom of the image reads: “Microsoft edge and google chrome don’t show up in neither of cachyos’ software stores out of the box. On octopi you can make it show up by pressing the weird alien head icon. “Mysteriously” firefox shows up on both stores immediately without clicking any obscure buttons. This is either extremely terrible i design or a deliberate sabotage attempt against microsoft and google from loonix devs, possibly sponsored by mozilla.”
Context:
OP is an idiot because these browsers would not be available due to restrictions required by Microsoft and Google to share their software, which is why nothing shows up when searching the installed repositories. Note that Chromium, the base for Edge and Chrome is available on the default repository.
The alien head icon searches the AUR (Arch User Repository) a place for users to add packages, often mirrored from GitHub, which would show Edge and Chrome as a user has ported it over unofficially. Because the AUR consists of unofficial packages, it is not part of the default repositories, and requires additional confirmation before installation.
Note that when installing from the AUR, it is always important to read what you are compiling as packages are not checked for malicious code. See recent news regarding compromised packages that weren’t maintained.
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Another day of dark patterns and anti-competitive practices against big tech. Typical for free and open-source software. /s
Aliens’ heads are smooth and grey, just like OP’s brain.
possibly sponsored by mozilla
This is funny as shit
Guess we’re already at the point where people make up wild conspiracy theories just to criticize Firefox.
Always have been 🔫
The kind of bullshit I’ve seen here on Lemmy alone.
Because it’s a circlejerk sub. It’s meant to be funny
Some of those loonies absolutely believe what they preach. Even if it means disregarding objective reality and engaging in fallacies like they’re a safety blanket. They’re the flat Earthers of the Unix-like world, and some of them much worse.
It’s not, check it out…
You’ll notice another blatant act of sabotage: LibreOffice is easy to find but Word is nowhere to be found.
Did you know ?
OpenOffice is a firewall product !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F011hLZHZrM
For context it is a french lawmakers casually explaining that OpenOffice has a firewall… And other random bullshit.
Well I mean fire bad…
poor wittle megacorporations
i will continue to assume they’re rdrama type noxious dipshits
What mental gymnastics does one have to do to come to that conclusion?
Going to the Microsoft gym for all their life
Believing a circlejerk sub is insane isn’t it.
Until you find out it’s not one.
Reminds me of a post I saw on here the other day.
Of course there’s always that “lol I’m just joking” until the joke becomes the new reality, but this ain’t it
When you believe lies, the truth seems suspicious
Linucksucks is a circlejerk sub.
Taking it seriously just proves their point.
They are dead serious though.
They’re absolutely serious. Here’s a post defending telemetry. The mod accuses anyone who speaks well of Linux as a “evangelists” and bans them.
It’s not the “lol birds aren’t real” kinda jerk, it’s the “the earth is flat” kind.
