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Uget download manager; this elderly still works like the best (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Nah, wget is the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

the legit question then is why isn't uget relying on wget

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thats a CLI program...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And...?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, i wanted to ask that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is Linux, what did you expect?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This is exactly what I expected and that isn't a good thing to increase market share. The answer to how often the average end user opens a terminal is "no".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

that's arguable, if there is a "market share" increase but users are not actually empowered nor use solutions that improve the situation for us all, e.g privacy, then what is even the point of such an increase?

I'm not saying everybody installing Linux for the first time should rely on the command line but IMHO being afraid or averse to it is not actually helpful for a deeper understanding and thus improving the situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

... and that is why the average user stays an average user.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

aria2 for me.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Thats a CLI program...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Would you mind clarifying why? I use File Centipede and it's been working perfect for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How does the mechanism of getting product key even work? I checked it few weeks ago, as I use Xtreme Download Manager and IDM on Windows. Also, how is it compared to them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't hear about centipede.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just use wget with some bash scripts when neccesary

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats a CLI program...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

writing wget https://url is that hard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

why not curl? it also supports gopher 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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