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>I feel that mobile got software distribution correct. It's more like mobile got package management right. Windows is terrible as an example to use for instal
by abhiminator 8y ago
>I feel that mobile got software distribution correct.
It's more like mobile got package management right.
Windows is terrible as an example to use for installing/removing software as it has extremely crude (almost non-existent) package management system (referring to Windows Installer here -- .msi files). [0]
I like to think of the App store (and equivalent) as a Linux command-line beautified by a GUI shell in a mobile form-factor.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer
- nailer 8y agoThis is what 'Click n run' was - one of the first app stores, created on the (ugly named) 'Lindows' Linux distribution.
- waivek 8y agoWith Linux desktops I have to know command line stuff and risk having to debug initial wifi issues myself.
- abhiminator 8y ago>debug initial wifi issues myself. But doesn't that make you better at troubleshooting and fixing problems in Linux -- a useful skill to have?
- waivek 8y agoI don't use Linux.