TBH, wish i could also bring my Desktop with me to College (x-post from /r/gif)

Fine, there:

Anyone who honestly believes that using Linux is that easy is kidding themselves.

Oh look, a drive-by ad hominem. Or some other logical fallacy, I don't care. It's just as retarded of a way to start your comment.

sudo apt install chrome

This assumes you know the package name, which you likely don't, which will require a google search (which is already 50% the effort in installing via executable) or at the very least trying different names like chrome-browser or chrome-stable.

More often than not, this package name is very much obvious. And you have tab-completion. You type in "sudo apt-get install chro", hit tab twice, and then it lists you the things that you might mean. You can also directly search in this repository. No need to go to Google.
Or you can just use one of the app-store-like GUI frontends, if you're not trying hard to find the way to use Linux that you like the least.

Repositories are another big one. They are a complete non-issue on Windows but an unnecessary hassle installing from a CLI.

You don't need to use third-party repositories on Linux either, but then you get to deal with the auto-updaters that everyone loves from Windows.

Prerequisites are the final nail in the coffin. Install .NET framework, latest DirectX, and Visual C++ and you will literally never need to bother with a prerequisite ever again in Windows.

Which results in a horribly bloated system with every program bringing in their own copies of the libraries that they need which aren't included in Windows. Therefore both hard drive space and RAM, and as a result of the added RAM management also CPU cycles, being wasted.

And believe it or not, software developers can distribute their programs in ways where all the dependencies are bundled. You'll just have to convince them that you really do want the bloat instead of maybe having to deal with installing a dependency once in a while.

I have never once sudo apt-get install whatever and had it actually download and install a usable program right away. There is always something that holds it up - I need a different version or a prerequisite or the directory simply doesn't exist.

Then I don't know when the last time was that you used Linux. 15 years ago? 20? Never?
As I said, that's just pure bullshit, unless you only tried it once with some really fucking obscure program. This stuff works more than 99% of the time.

The CLI is simply inferior. It just is. It might be faster for you but it is still far less intuitive (that is, not intuitive at all - nobody could ever sit down at the terminal and start using it without at least some prior knowledge of commands) and requires more physical effort. It is like using a web browser exclusively via the URL.

Then don't use it, if you dislike it so much.

It exists exclusively as a backup for when downloading and running a .deb doesn't work (which happens a lot in Linux).

Were you running Fedora or openSUSE or Arch or Gentoo? Because then I could understand that, as they don't fucking use .deb files.
Otherwise, you're just bullshitting, again. I have never even once heard of someone who had problems getting a .deb file working and I hang out in /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions a lot.

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