Rustmilian to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months ago"LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :lemmy.worldimagemessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down126file-text
arrow-up11.1Karrow-down1image"LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :lemmy.worldRustmilian to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square196fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@Skates@feddit.nllinkfedilink7•6 months agoAhahahah imagine writing a short story to install a browser
minus-square@dezmd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•6 months agoYeah, totally. Just imagine trying to do this with Windows Powershell, without a package manager like chocolatey to make it simple like linux… $workdir = "c:\installer\" If (Test-Path -Path $workdir -PathType Container) { Write-Host "$workdir already exists" -ForegroundColor Red} ELSE { New-Item -Path $workdir -ItemType directory } $source = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US" $destination = "$workdir\firefox.exe" if (Get-Command 'Invoke-Webrequest') { Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination } else { $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $destination) } Start-Process -FilePath "$workdir\firefox.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" Start-Sleep -s 35 rm -Force $workdir/firefox*
minus-square@mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•6 months agoCould be three. Just make your only account the root user.
minus-square@cygon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•6 months agoMake it two: emerge firefox (Gentoo users only)
minus-square@ulternolinkEnglish1•6 months ago its four words By the time you reach writing 4 words on Windows, you’'l have enough mental exhaustion for it to be equivalent to a short story.
Ahahahah imagine writing a short story to install a browser
Yeah, totally.
Just imagine trying to do this with Windows Powershell, without a package manager like chocolatey to make it simple like linux…
$workdir = "c:\installer\" If (Test-Path -Path $workdir -PathType Container) { Write-Host "$workdir already exists" -ForegroundColor Red} ELSE { New-Item -Path $workdir -ItemType directory } $source = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US" $destination = "$workdir\firefox.exe" if (Get-Command 'Invoke-Webrequest') { Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination } else { $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $destination) } Start-Process -FilePath "$workdir\firefox.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" Start-Sleep -s 35 rm -Force $workdir/firefox*
its four words
Could be three. Just make your only account the root user.
Make it two:
emerge firefox
(Gentoo users only)By the time you reach writing 4 words on Windows, you’'l have enough mental exhaustion for it to be equivalent to a short story.