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>The package management is still a mess. If you mean for system updates I'd agree, but software package management is a shit show on Linux and it shows why les
by tdkl 10y ago
>The package management is still a mess.
If you mean for system updates I'd agree, but software package management is a shit show on Linux and it shows why less people bother writing software with & why Electron is popular there.
What's more easier then clicking an .exe ?
- oldsj 10y agoAnd (although I don't think its Win10 specific) but there's chocolatey now too which is great
- computerex 10y agoWindows wasn't really designed with package management in mind. In the Unix/Linux world, there is the notion of the "unix way", and package management is central in facilitating this methodology. As a result, unix/linux world offers a software package management experience that's years ahead of what you can get with Windows (natively, Choco is pretty nice, the app selection has finally gotten non-trivial). Brew in OSX offers something pretty close.
- executesorder66 10y agoYou don't just click the .exe You first have to open a browser, then find the sotware's website. Then find the download page, then download it. Then open explorer to where the .exe was downloaded. Then double click it. Then click next a bunch of times. And if the software's dependencies are not bundled in the installer, then you have to redo this whole process again. On Linux you just open your terminal and execute a single command.
- tdkl 10y ago>On Linux you just open your terminal and execute a single command. Lmao, yes speculating that it includes that certain software package or that it's the latest version. That burden is on the developer (if there's no maintainer) which has to waste time packaging same thing for X distros. Windows developer uploads the .exe to the web and he's done.