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And yet for some reason pretty much all the software I install on my mac is literally "drag and drop into applications"? Or homebrew which is really just depen
by booi 3y ago
And yet for some reason pretty much all the software I install on my mac is literally "drag and drop into applications"?
Or homebrew which is really just dependency management + standardized directories for files which is what it should be. Installshield was a solution for an entirely artificial problem.
- RajT88 3y agoThere are many tradeoffs the major OS's made over the years. There is a reason Mac had such tiny market share for so long, especially among enterprises. Installation was among pros and cons, but I would advise you to come off your high horse and understand the rest of it. Some reasons technical, some not. For a long time enterprises shunned Mac for extremely pragmatic reasons.
- Qwertious 3y agoI've never had a Mac and have no particular experience with it, what are the extremely pragmatic reasons? I know there are a few like HFS+ only allowing one file to be read at a time under-the-hood, but I doubt minor performance issues are the key reason for enterprise choices.
- eviks 3y agoThese is as generic a response as the article itself, and is just as unhelpful since any of the two extremes fit: it could very well be that those tradeoffs were mostly bad decisions, or it could also be the only proper way to do it, and Mac's easy way is still wrong
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