>tarball installs is pretty much close to the state of Windows app installations. Except that they're hard to install for a novice user. >You have to find the

>tarball installs is pretty much close to the state of Windows app installations. Except that they're hard to install for a novice user. >You have to find the bloody things, download them each time and hope you have found the right one and not a trojaned one. Each one needs its own update routine and will not be updated when the rest of the system is updated. None of those are problems for me, the actual problems are: installing all the dependencies and then executing the make commands. Both of those could be solved with a well designed API. >The Windows and Apple software distribution model is archaic compared to all Linux/BSD etc distros. The Windows and apple software distribution works for all my use cases, the Linux model doesn't (eg: if I want many versions of the same package, if I want a package that isn't included in the repos, etc). Also, from a philosophical and aesthetical point of view, the Windows & Mac distribution model is better: you get your OS from the OS developer, and you get your specific-use applications from the developer of said application. You are not dependent on a single entity that supposedly knows what you need better than you.