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.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It’s funny how quickly Lemmy turns on a dime between “Linux is easier than Windows” in threads about adopting Linux to “spend some time learning the terminal” when presented with a question that should be a single click (installing an app).

    Before the hate train starts, I’ve been using Linux off and on for 30 years now. And I still struggle with making distros do things that shouldn’t be that hard because they aren’t hard in Windows.

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      10 months ago

      In this case, to do the exact same as Windows, it literally is just a click.

      To auto-update from a repository, it’s a similar deal in Windows.

      In this case, they’re the same. Repos are preferred in GNU/Linux and installers in Windows, but both can do both.