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Why would it? It’s a photo editing tool, not a drawing tool.

sshfs also works across the internet…quick and dirty file access from anywhere in the world.

I almost said that. It was my first thought. But then the people discussing it seemed kind of focused on local networks so…

I am not sure what to say, but maybe use something that already has done the work for you? I set up Open Media Vault 20 years ago and it has SMB shares built in. Ran it for 15 years with little to no intervention on my part.

Also, highly recommend keeping documents of how you set things up, including a link, if not a copy of the guide and the how and why you did what you did when making your own server. We do it on enterprise systems, I do it on home systems (if building from scratch).

tvOS app

Ah, I have never messed with that. Of course Apple makes it hard, lol.

What is missing? I have had no issues with it.

But you can use Steamlink as a remote desktop tool too. I do it all the time with my steamdeck in desktop mode.

I know this is just an example, but it is kind of funny.

User somehow sets up SMB shares on their network. Then is confused by the client?

this meme once again shows a Linux terminal command (that only works on specific distros)

sshfs only works on certain distros? Oh you mean the apt install part.

the button in the File Manager to add the network share to your left sidebar.

I just browse to the network location I want and right click on the view in the file manager and select “add to places”. It will be there on the sidebar until I remove it. Yes it is there after a reboot.

In the old days we just used X over SSH (xforwarding) and only sent the single application over, no desktop need by running on the host (well technically client as X is backwords).

I know the user experience difference is ridiculously bad trying to remote into Linux.

It isn’t. There are lots of tools for this, including using RDP. It is really easy actually. It is a graphical front end tool on KDE.

The “bad” part is that the user must already be logged in and the desktop opened because that is how linux works.

Speaking of modern: I usually just use moonlight for streaming and sunshine for hosting between machines that are on the same network because it is so simple and available in Fdriod for Android devices. You can share apps or the desktop.

You CAN configure wake on lan and run a script to auto log in a user (with moonlight) if you wanted to use it with a machine that is off, but I can agree that that is a few extra steps.

Oh so this is not a photoediting class I thought. So I launched Krita. And everyone laughed when they realized Photoshop was the wrong tool for the job.

We had icecream.

How was the gnome registry some how worse? Microsoft didn’t even have a document that could describe how theirs worked, much less an organizational structure. At least Gnomes was basically simple words and categories. And they built a settings manager for it too.

Not that I use gnome much, but still this is silly.

My example wasn’t literal, I have had to do similar things for drivers, sound, USB, search etc. And windows support is just randos telling you what they think might work.

As to your second point, the sane applies as windows is a collection of who knows that the hell software and random hardware. Which hardware? What driver? What vendor?

There are hordes more people on Windows and Mac

Because it came with their computer. I have not used a command line at all on two laptops over the past year. It is the exception not the rule these days.

However I have had to use the command line many, many times with Windows. Which is fine, it is MUCH easier to do this “Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted” instead of trying to find the gui to deal with it.

GUIs exist for a reason.

What is that reason? To obfuscate what is really happening? To make it difficult to support a computer because it takes 20 pages of pictures and a flow chart to explain something when a person could just copy paste a single line? I don’t buy that gui’s are easier or intuitive, or all that useful every time.

I don’t see any difference googling using a decent search engine for one over the other.

And lets not forget that windows is a confusing mess of self help support pages and command line entries for almost everything that goes wrong.

Why would anyone be on all? Even with reddit I I quit going to all probably 10 years ago…

And don’t let my Lemmy age fool you, I drop my account every 6 to 8 months. It took my a lot longer to figure that out on reddit.