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Yeah, Windows is easier. I can provide a user a URL to a Windows installer to skip those steps. (they don't need to uninstall it) For Linux, the software I des
by throwaway984393 5y ago
Yeah, Windows is easier. I can provide a user a URL to a Windows installer to skip those steps. (they don't need to uninstall it)
For Linux, the software I described does not exist as a package with an accompanying GUI app (and even if it did, which package for which distro?). That's the thing about these discussions: when a person has a real complaint about something that is very difficult for a regular person in Linux, there is always a theoretical way that Linux is easier, but then in practice it doesn't work.
- smoldesu 5y agoWell my "theoretical" Windows software doesn't have an MSI installer, and has to be extracted as a portable file where the binary is hidden deep in a release folder.
- dheera 5y agoAnd also not to mention the Ubuntu GUI software store is slow as fuck. Zero attention was put into making it a snappy user experience. It has in every way been an afterthought. If I double-click a .deb file to open it, it takes a good 7-8 seconds. On an i7 8th gen. That's not acceptable. If it needs to process something it should show up in 0.1 s and show a progress bar. I don't use it because it's faster to open a terminal and type `sudo dpkg -i foo<tab><enter>`. Most Linux users today probably do it that way, so nobody cared to optimize the GUI "alternative".