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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

bird-screm-2 STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT

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[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have no clue; I don't touch that corpo garbage, but if there's not and yyou can't, and wine doesn't work:

Run a windows (or android? Android seems lighter) VM, give it no permissions it doesn't need, sandbox the fuck out of it, then sync from there.

Edit: quick search reveals likeliest solutions are tied into the ux... Thingies, forget what they're called. Like KDE and gnome. Try the one for yours; gnome and KDE generally have their shit together.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The constant tension between "Try Linux! It's so easy" and a reply like this thonk-cri

I know this is mostly Google's fault, but I just can't switch if doing this is required to run a program I need to use daily

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Youre married to a specific corpo shit thing that is shit and specifically does not support Linux, on purpose. Google is fighting you, they are making this hard. And your ux (probably gnome or KDE) is what looks like it has the solution here. Try that instead of acting like a libchild. Dual boot or whatever til you find a thing that works (windows updates gave been known to kill dual boots partitioned on same physical drive)

And the reason to switch isn't because it's 'so easy'. I made a kind of linger post somewhere in this thread on it.

[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like I said, I'm well aware this is mostly because Google refuses to make a Linux client. Also the UX solutions you mentioned are ones I've already looked at and they don't actually sync the files, which is what I need. The one program (Insync) that actually seems to do this is not FOSS and costs $40 per account

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

And it looks like there are Linux tools that do what6ou want, integrated into at least the two major UX's.

[-] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The constant tension between "Try Linux! It's so easy" and a reply like this

Sorry, this made me have to hold back my laughter so much on the train that I repeatedly snorted. EVERY LINUX SOLUTION REPLY IS LIKE THIS.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I have no clue; I don't touch that corpo garbage

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

He was an asshole, but he wasn't wrong.

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