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.

  • umbrella
    3·
    10 months ago

    nowadays they always come across as lazy to me, when a bunch of options are available to make installing software on linux painless.

    • Lvxferre
      1·
      10 months ago

      I like them, even for software installation. Partially because they’re lazy - it takes almost no effort to write a bash script that will solve a problem like this.

      That said a flatpak (like you proposed) would look far more polished, indeed.

      • umbrella
        2·
        10 months ago

        oh i meant devs who provide packages but don’t bother with install scripts.

        bash scripts are fine when they exist.

        • Lvxferre
          2·
          10 months ago

          Ah, got it. My bad. Yeah, not providing anything is even lazier, and unlike “lazy” bash scripts it leaves the user clueless.