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When I finally left Windows for Linux on my desktop, this was why. The $0 app market on Windows was terrible. Even if it wasn't installing malware, everything
by syllogism 12y ago
When I finally left Windows for Linux on my desktop, this was why. The $0 app market on Windows was terrible.
Even if it wasn't installing malware, everything was implicitly user hostile. I remember in the early 2000s, the form this took was every application eventually tried to steal your media file associations.
The last straw was when I had to do a fresh install, and the Nero CD burning software was 200mb, because the CD burner had decided it also needed to be a media player.
- Anthony-G 12y agoHah! I'd forgot about all those annoyances. Back then I had a modem and a crappy phone line with a maximum transfer speed of 25 kbits/second. I had to be really careful about what software I'd install from the Internet. In fact, most of the software that I installed came from CDs packaged with trustworthy computer magazines. Aside from the pre-yum dependecy hell, Red Hat Linux was a breath of fresh air.