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For one user yes, macOS is a lot better. For managing enterprise fleets of computers Windows is far far ahead. MSIs are very powerful and can be deployed well a

For one user yes, macOS is a lot better. For managing enterprise fleets of computers Windows is far far ahead. MSIs are very powerful and can be deployed well at scale. Linux is really the problem here. Installing software newer that what your distro has packaged is often a total nightmare, with PPAs which can blow up your entire apt system. I think flatpak etc are on the right path.

netizen-936824 5y ago
Sounds like you're only considering Debian and Ubuntu builds
xorcist 5y ago
Third party binary packages are most often installed on Linux like: tar xzf firefox-99.0.tar.gz ; cd firefox ; ./firefox Flatpaks and other things are still a novelty and it's not clear it will ever take over the above.
- justinclift 5y ago
  > ... are most often ... That's a very much "citations needed". From my perspective, only the JetBrains IDE's and Firefox are done like that. Everything else is some kind of third party package (ppa, flatpack, snap, docker, etc).
  - xorcist 5y ago
    Firefox and Jetbrains are probably among the most popular Linux software. Every language runtime from NodeJS, Go, Python and Perl. Sublime Text, Citrix, Teamviewer, every commerical CAD software, pretty much very game.