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Why are you disappointed? This is just obviously what canonical wants and has been continually pushing for. Also, the situations in which manually installing a

Why are you disappointed? This is just obviously what canonical wants and has been continually pushing for. Also, the situations in which manually installing a .deb is a good idea are extremely rare. It just is an all around bad idea. That this is unintuitive to Windows users is true, but also an incredibly weak argument.

a_vanderbilt 3y ago
There are plenty of apps that I install from .deb files: Slack, Parsec, Steam, Chrome, etc. There are more, but the point is if you go on their websites and click download you get a deb package. Sure a Flatpak or a Snap would be better, but consider the audience of Ubuntu and these apps. If it isn't intuitive it's a fail. App distributors need to get on board and start shipping things that aren't Debian packages.
- constantcrying 3y ago
  >There are plenty of apps that I install from .deb files: Which, again, is a terrible habit. Why you are using Chrome at all is truly confounding me > it isn't intuitive it's a fail. It shouldn't be intuitive, is is a terrible thing to do and basic UI design tells you that doing terrible things should be hard. If you lack the technical competence to correctly install a package you should NOT be using that operating system. >App distributors need to get on board and start shipping things that aren't Debian packages. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Deb package. The issue is with you downloading and installing them, which for many reasons is a terrible idea.
  - a_vanderbilt 3y ago
    An elitist attitude and inability to consider others' perspectives renders the whole conversation moot from the start. Sorry, but I won't entertain the debate when the premise is established in blind negativity.
    - constantcrying 3y ago
      I am only elitst in the sense that I believe that if you are going to drive a car you should know what the steering wheel does. Installing .deb's is the equivalent of only ever staying in first gear "because it works". Honestly NOT telling people they are messing up would make me feel worse. If you aren't willing to listen to me listen to Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

a_vanderbilt 3y ago

There are plenty of apps that I install from .deb files: Slack, Parsec, Steam, Chrome, etc. There are more, but the point is if you go on their websites and click download you get a deb package. Sure a Flatpak or a Snap would be better, but consider the audience of Ubuntu and these apps. If it isn't intuitive it's a fail. App distributors need to get on board and start shipping things that aren't Debian packages.

constantcrying 3y ago
>There are plenty of apps that I install from .deb files: Which, again, is a terrible habit. Why you are using Chrome at all is truly confounding me > it isn't intuitive it's a fail. It shouldn't be intuitive, is is a terrible thing to do and basic UI design tells you that doing terrible things should be hard. If you lack the technical competence to correctly install a package you should NOT be using that operating system. >App distributors need to get on board and start shipping things that aren't Debian packages. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Deb package. The issue is with you downloading and installing them, which for many reasons is a terrible idea.
- a_vanderbilt 3y ago
  An elitist attitude and inability to consider others' perspectives renders the whole conversation moot from the start. Sorry, but I won't entertain the debate when the premise is established in blind negativity.
  - constantcrying 3y ago
    I am only elitst in the sense that I believe that if you are going to drive a car you should know what the steering wheel does. Installing .deb's is the equivalent of only ever staying in first gear "because it works". Honestly NOT telling people they are messing up would make me feel worse. If you aren't willing to listen to me listen to Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian