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Hilarious that this happens. Oftentimes when you do something in a traditional IT environment it takes ages to install software (ie, configuring a Windows serve

Hilarious that this happens. Oftentimes when you do something in a traditional IT environment it takes ages to install software (ie, configuring a Windows server with AD and all the related stuff), requires multiple reboots after setting hostname etc. It truly takes ages, lots of progress bars and waiting and making coffee. Meanwhile in an OSS/Linux environment a lot of things are truly trivial and instantaneous to a point where sometimes you gotta ask yourself "was that it?" Perception of value is an interesting thing.

Alupis 3y ago
This is mostly caused by the Windows-induced impression of what "installing" software means. Most normal users would not describe unpacking a Zip into a directory as "installing" - yet that's exactly what it is everywhere except Windows. Sometimes the unpacking isn't even necessary...
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- woleium 3y ago
  Windows packages usually also require strange and disparate updates to the registry database.
  - whalesalad 3y ago
    I legitimately cannot take anyone seriously who claims to be a windows power user. It is a dumpster fire of an operating system.
    - 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
      Maybe from a purely technical perspective. Windows can be made to do just about anything, has the most tools and the most support. A power user should care most about getting work done. If they care more about how they got it done than what they got done, that's called a hobbyist.
    - addicted 3y ago
      Have you used powershell? Of course it’s available on all OSes right now, but Windows has had incredible programmability (not comparable to Linux, but superior to MacOS), and since Powershell probably has a much more powerful scripting story than any other OS. The ability to write quick scripts in Powershell, but also tap into C#, it’s massive standard library of code, and all the many 3rd party libraries and commingle that almost seamlessly with Powershell is tremendous. Finally, Windows had probably the best toolkits to whip up a quick and dirty UI for anything you wanted to do with WinForms (name?) which was more powerful and yet quick and easy to use relative to any other toolkit on any other platform. Unfortunately, what Windows has gained on the command line it appears to have lost in creating GUI driven scripts.
      - defrost 3y ago
        > Finally, Windows had probably the best toolkits to whip up a quick and dirty UI for anything you wanted to do There was a TCL for Windows? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl
    - sonicanatidae 3y ago
      lol.. found the *nix fanboi.

Alupis 3y ago

This is mostly caused by the Windows-induced impression of what "installing" software means. Most normal users would not describe unpacking a Zip into a directory as "installing" - yet that's exactly what it is everywhere except Windows. Sometimes the unpacking isn't even necessary...

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woleium 3y ago
Windows packages usually also require strange and disparate updates to the registry database.
- whalesalad 3y ago
  I legitimately cannot take anyone seriously who claims to be a windows power user. It is a dumpster fire of an operating system.
  - 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
    Maybe from a purely technical perspective. Windows can be made to do just about anything, has the most tools and the most support. A power user should care most about getting work done. If they care more about how they got it done than what they got done, that's called a hobbyist.
  - addicted 3y ago
    Have you used powershell? Of course it’s available on all OSes right now, but Windows has had incredible programmability (not comparable to Linux, but superior to MacOS), and since Powershell probably has a much more powerful scripting story than any other OS. The ability to write quick scripts in Powershell, but also tap into C#, it’s massive standard library of code, and all the many 3rd party libraries and commingle that almost seamlessly with Powershell is tremendous. Finally, Windows had probably the best toolkits to whip up a quick and dirty UI for anything you wanted to do with WinForms (name?) which was more powerful and yet quick and easy to use relative to any other toolkit on any other platform. Unfortunately, what Windows has gained on the command line it appears to have lost in creating GUI driven scripts.
    - defrost 3y ago
      > Finally, Windows had probably the best toolkits to whip up a quick and dirty UI for anything you wanted to do There was a TCL for Windows? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl
  - sonicanatidae 3y ago
    lol.. found the *nix fanboi.