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macOS app installation is broken for about 20 years now. It's not a new thing. Instead of clicking "next-next-next" as you do on Windows, you have at least 3 c
by shp0ngle 5y ago
macOS app installation is broken for about 20 years now. It's not a new thing.
Instead of clicking "next-next-next" as you do on Windows, you have at least 3 competing versions of installing things.
* you have pkg installers (sometimes zipped, sometimes just .pkg files)
* you have those .app bundles that you need to manually move to Application (they are sometimes in a zip and sometimes in a DMG, further complicating things)
* you now also have an app store (that keeps requiring you to enter iCloud password - different from OS password - all the time for some weird reason)
And don't try to even uninstall anything.
* app store apps are uninstalled by ... holding them in Launchpad view, which is never needed anywhere else
* other apps... just are not un-installable, really.
- goldcd 5y agoI wouldn't say MS has 'completely' sovlved the installer problem. "Just download the windows version" 'OK.. am I x86, x64 or ARM? I think it's Windows 10' 'Do I want the zip, the exe, the MSI or standalone?' It's almost enough just to tell them to use the MS app store.
- viktorcode 5y agoThe whole idea that programs have to be installed to run and uninstalled when no longer needed shows how many people were trained (mostly by Microsoft) to follow along the lines of poor user experience. As it is the norm, people call that 'intuitive'.