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If this were true Mac and Windows wouldn’t thrive, but they do just fine without a system level package manager at all.
by AlphaSite 5y ago
If this were true Mac and Windows wouldn’t thrive, but they do just fine without a system level package manager at all.
- Ericson2314 5y agoErr i was trying to answer > What I'm against is the general fragmentation of Linux that makes interoperability between distro's and window managers problematic. I disagree that downloading software being hard is a major impediment. (though I realize the parent did continue to claim that.) How many people download executables on the regular anyways?
- nick__m 5y agoWindows now has a first-party package manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli It positively surprised me when I did `sudo winget upgrade` (I first did `winget install gerardog.gsudo` in an admin prompt) and it detected and upgraded the majority of the already installed OSS on my Windows workstation.