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There's a significant piece of information omitted from those instructions: From where do you download the installer? How do you know the source you are downloa
by jenscow 8y ago
There's a significant piece of information omitted from those instructions: From where do you download the installer? How do you know the source you are downloading it from is the official one?
And there's the dreadful download pages with ads that look like download buttons, which are more obvious than the real one.
Also, don't forget to inspect every option of the installer to ensure you're not allowing the installation of bundled adware, toolbars, and search page hijackers. And these are sometimes bundled by the distributor.
Every mainstream Linux distro has an "app store"-like GUI application, where you click install and it installs. Click uninstall, and it uninstalls. You should try it - you'll be impressed.
- leppr 8y agoI agree the download process is boring and risky, but that's a process users are familiar with. At no point does this make them think "that's all over my head" (even if they end up with malware). I'm not saying the approach is superior in all points, I'm pointing out how much more intuitive it is for the average person. And I was specifically talking about software that's not in a pre-installed repository. The different GUI app stores are pretty much equally easy to use.