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Which presents itself as a much higher barrier. Only the smallest fraction of Windows PCs have these layers enabled/correctly configured, for it to run. Virtua
by owlmirror 10y ago
Which presents itself as a much higher barrier. Only the smallest fraction of Windows PCs have these layers enabled/correctly configured, for it to run.
Virtually all Windows PCs have a Browser installed and running. Most users know how to open and operate a Browser.
Of course it's kind of redundant for everything to be reimplemented into the browser, things that should be implemented and used on a OS level, but I think it's a testament of the shortcomings of the UX design or even more fundamental paradigms of personal computing.
- eriknstr 10y ago>Only the smallest fraction of Windows PCs have these layers enabled/correctly configured, for it to run. I have never had any trouble running either MSYS2 or Cygwin on Windows computers even when the amount of privileges given to my account has been very low.
- 0942v8653 10y agoThe website to MSYS2 was blocked by my high school's firewall. I think Cygwin used Sourceforge, which was arbitrarily filtered for badware risk. There were other ways of fixing that, but my point is… it'a good to have alternatives, and the browser ensures good portability.