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.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Usually, it isn’t as complicated. For 95% of all apps (and 99% of all apps a casual user needs) you can go into your software center and just click “install”, the same you would on your smartphone.

    This one here is just an edge case.

    I also prefer well designed GUIs more than terminals, but after those few years now, I came to love the CLI.
    Often, it’s just way more straight forward than clicking through 1000 ugly sub menus and chaotic regstry edits like on Windows. Most stuff a normal user needs is well accessible through GUIs, and poweruser stuff or options one barely needs are and should be hidden.

    If you’re scared, that’s good. Paste the commands into some GPT before executing them, that helps a lot.

    But most beginner friendly distros like Mint and Zorin have GUIs for everything and hide the terminal well in the app overview because of that.