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Not even slightly surprised. When I got my Win 10 machine at work I typed "python" into my command line to see if it was installed and was shocked I didn't get

Not even slightly surprised. When I got my Win 10 machine at work I typed "python" into my command line to see if it was installed and was shocked I didn't get a "command not found" message back, and confused when the MS Store popped up a second later. Win 10 ships with a python.exe that redirects to the MS Store and they hide in a place that makes its tough to remove from the path. When I got Win 10 at home I got to the shady telemetry opt-out page and immediate switched the install to debian.

mlrtime 7y ago
For most users this is great. Instead of having to find where to download python and install it, Microsoft will do it for you from the store. How is this different than ubuntu suggesting the apt command when you type a command?
- intrepidhero 7y ago
  I closed the store as soon as it opened and it never occurred to me to see if there was python packaged in the store. If they were positioning the store as a reputable place to find curated software I'd be a little more charitable to the behavior as a feature to save users a step. I'm probably cynical but I think they're positioning the store as a way to extract commissions from software devs. As such I'd much rather download direct from python.org and this redirection behavior left a bad taste.
- efreak 7y ago
  As one example (with a relatively trivial fix): the deep subfolder it gets installed in can cause path length issues [0]. There's a trivial fix (registry edit) to enable long paths, but that's not very user friendly. This affected me immediately--the first package I tried to install failed (possibly htop? I can't remember anymore...) apt installs packages for the system as a whole. Microsoft store does not. [0] https://bugs.python.org/issue37769 https://bugs.python.org/issue37769

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Not even slightly surprised. When I got my Win 10 machine at work I typed "python" into my command line to see if it was installed and was shocked I didn't get

by intrepidhero 7y ago

mlrtime 7y ago
For most users this is great. Instead of having to find where to download python and install it, Microsoft will do it for you from the store. How is this different than ubuntu suggesting the apt command when you type a command?
- intrepidhero 7y ago
  I closed the store as soon as it opened and it never occurred to me to see if there was python packaged in the store. If they were positioning the store as a reputable place to find curated software I'd be a little more charitable to the behavior as a feature to save users a step. I'm probably cynical but I think they're positioning the store as a way to extract commissions from software devs. As such I'd much rather download direct from python.org and this redirection behavior left a bad taste.
- efreak 7y ago
  As one example (with a relatively trivial fix): the deep subfolder it gets installed in can cause path length issues [0]. There's a trivial fix (registry edit) to enable long paths, but that's not very user friendly. This affected me immediately--the first package I tried to install failed (possibly htop? I can't remember anymore...) apt installs packages for the system as a whole. Microsoft store does not. [0] https://bugs.python.org/issue37769 https://bugs.python.org/issue37769