Interesting point. They do it in the Windows world, too, though. Leading to people learning to seek out their .../distribution3 page (IIRC), where the full in

Interesting point. They do it in the Windows world, too, though. Leading to people learning to seek out their .../distribution3 page (IIRC), where the full installers are linked. In the Windows world, the shims bork more easily, and they don't seem to add any benefit. I haven't really been paying much attention in Ubuntu; I just happened to notice this, today. On Ubuntu, Flash updates via the update manager have been mostly "just working", and I have most Flash blocked, anyway. Back to Windows: Whenever I have to maintain multiple machines with some or all of them perhaps currently off-line, this shim business quickly becomes a pain in the ass.