Yes, this tends to be more confusing to non-technical users. This necessarily tends to lean towards the one thing common across Linux systems: the shell. As developers of Ardour, we have almost zero interest in trying to formulate per-distribution solutions, so we do the best we can to come up with that work across every variety of a Linux system. But they wouldn’t work on Arch Linux, or some others. So, yes, there are things we could do that will work nicely on Ubuntu. The problem with Linux is that a user’s system is not defined by the Linux kernel, but by the user-level decisions made by the particular distribution that the user has chose to use. So there’s no chance that anything that like will be common to all Linux systems. Linux, to the extent that it can be talked about as a monolithic entity, decided long ago that it wasn’t going to get involved with the kind of high level user interaction that happens on OS X when you double click on a downloaded application. Whew… Thanks for getting this far, I realize this is not the venue to vent like this but, there you go… This is an experiment and I’m certain there are many more like me. I want Ardour to work I don’t want to go back to Windows and Abelton Live. I can’t help but wonder if the Linux universe is forever cursed into a constricted and terminal market, a curse that is self-imposed by the members themselves. I’ve learned that Linux fixes are easy to find via a quick search but invariably the solutions on forums are provided by the Swahili speakers themselves and the solutions are spoken in short, geekspeak sentences and involves the terminal and the anal UNIX parlance. For example “Permission denied” BECAUSE you are not a super-user or in or out of a bin or, some additional information that is informative? By the way I’m giving you a freebie glimpse into the mind of a non linux user who considers the parlance maddening and unfamiliar and the presumption from so many tekkies that if they speak Swahili then everyone should understand Swahili is equally maddening. And if a user gets a message that says “permission denied” or I can’t run the executable, then why couldn’t the brilliant Linux programmers of yore expounded on the problem with more informative warning boxes? Is there a limit on word count? A warning box with ten words instead of two solemn words, “Permission Denied”. for instance… “You Are Here” sort of thing. And why couldn’t Ardour accommodate the executable similarly as “mintinstall” cues me for my password when I enter the software center? And thirdly if security of permissions is so damn important (undoubtedly it is) then why can’t a user ascertain what level they are at at any given time via a “VISUAL CUE”. To be honest the syntax shown was confusing such as "is that the entire path? Should /bin/sh/ be proceeded with home or oem, or more? And why is there a suspicious space between /sh.
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