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To be honest, it is quite complicated now as well with all of the proprietary software (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] Delta_V 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

not seen in this comic: the linux file isn't where the comic/manual/internet nerds says it should be, and there's no realistic way to find it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure there is: find / -name myprogram*.md -o -name myprogram*.txt or start with just looking for the program name and pipe to less

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So simple

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The prompt was realistic not simple lol. Usually some man or programname -h and then reading will tell you where to look and that's simple. Not many people want to hear "RTFM" though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Until flatpak came along and just keeps everything in their respective app sandbox.

If your app don't need full user home access (most app don't), you can use a persistent folder to place the folder in app sandbox instead of home.

It is not only more clean, but also more secure and private.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nonsense. And even if the config file cannot be found in the usual directories then there are always tools like KFind that can search your entire OS within seconds.

[–] Delta_V 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

congratulations. you've just sent a linux newb down a 12 hour rabbit hole that doesn't actually solve their problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

and thats the power of linux baby hell yeah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

How does it not solve their problem if they're searching for configuration files? That would only be the case if the files do not exist in the first place, and then there's really no difference between GNU/Linux and Windows at all if you assume that initial configuration has not occurred. What would you do?