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> Downloading and executing an MSI does not seem to be a meaningfully different operation than writing the apt-get command; For fetching development libraries,
by Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
> Downloading and executing an MSI does not seem to be a meaningfully different operation than writing the apt-get command;
For fetching development libraries, it's huge.
If I run `make` and it turns out I need libfrobnicate-dev, I can just quickly `sudo apt install libfrobnicate-dev`. I don't need to pull up a browser, Google it, find the MSI, make sure I'm grabbing the right version (Seriously why the hell does 32-bit Windows still exist?), download, and run it.
Oh, and what about when that dev library gets a new version? `sudo apt upgrade`. Done. All my libraries get updated, no need to track down 20 MSIs.