Windows is basically: download the installer, run it, and boom you’re good to go.
Linux distros typically have 2-3 different ways to install applications and multiple mechanisms for updating/maintaining, where most of the good ones are non graphical. It’s confusing for even experienced users let alone someone who doesn’t know what a “package” is.
Say I want to uninstall something, I need to know how it was installed (apt? Snap? Flatpak? Manual build from source?) in order to do so. On windows, they have a registration scheme where installers log to a common OS level application management on what to run to uninstall.
Most users just open the app store on their distro and install things there. It’s painless. Your complaint is the equivalent of somebody on android deciding not to use the google store and saying that they have too many places to install applications from.
I actually find it hilarious that you even think windows installers are good. They are friggin mess and leave behind a bunch of crap when uninstalled. There’s a good reason windows needs stuff like reg-cleaners and debloaters and what have you. Let’s not even get into how easy it is to get adware or malware on windows, because searching for “rar installer” gets you a bunch of paid malware sites on the top of the search results.
Wishing to go back to the “simplicity” of a windows installers is madness. Linux isn’t perfect for packaging software, but let’s not pretend windows is better.
Needs brainless application management.
Windows is basically: download the installer, run it, and boom you’re good to go.
Linux distros typically have 2-3 different ways to install applications and multiple mechanisms for updating/maintaining, where most of the good ones are non graphical. It’s confusing for even experienced users let alone someone who doesn’t know what a “package” is.
Say I want to uninstall something, I need to know how it was installed (apt? Snap? Flatpak? Manual build from source?) in order to do so. On windows, they have a registration scheme where installers log to a common OS level application management on what to run to uninstall.
Most users just open the app store on their distro and install things there. It’s painless. Your complaint is the equivalent of somebody on android deciding not to use the google store and saying that they have too many places to install applications from.
I actually find it hilarious that you even think windows installers are good. They are friggin mess and leave behind a bunch of crap when uninstalled. There’s a good reason windows needs stuff like reg-cleaners and debloaters and what have you. Let’s not even get into how easy it is to get adware or malware on windows, because searching for “rar installer” gets you a bunch of paid malware sites on the top of the search results.
Wishing to go back to the “simplicity” of a windows installers is madness. Linux isn’t perfect for packaging software, but let’s not pretend windows is better.
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