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slim 5 days ago

On your mobile phone you install software like in linux, by looking it up in the store. Windows is the outlier

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pjmlp 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Outlier are the people that stick to old ways,

https://apps.microsoft.com

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/wi...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/windows-...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/overview

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thewebguyd 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unless you're looking for dev tools, then we are back to downloading an exe in the form of curl | bash taking over everywhere.

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mrheosuper 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've seen many times in Linux, the version in app store is different from its website(usually outdated).

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razemio 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, this makes sense, since most distros use a "standard release" system. The intention behind it is to keep your OS stable and only apply security patches at some point. If you want to have a system with always the newest software, you need to use a "rolling release " system. I think Arch Linux is the most popular (arch user btw). This is much more fun, if you know what you are doing. Otherwise you will end up with a broken system pretty fast. Ofc you can fix it, but depending on experience and skill something like Ubuntu is the better choice.

	▲	the__alchemist 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think this is a conflation of the OS with the software a user is running on it.

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tombert 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sure, but it's a big outlier.

It's one of those things, I think younger people would adapt to Linux just fine because of the reason you stated, but I think people my age (or my parents' age) would have the most trouble with it. When I learned how to use a computer, outside of the Commodore 64 that I broke as a little kid, I learned to download .exe files and next next next finish to install, as did my parents.

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pidgeon_lover 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

On my mobile phone, I install software like on Windows, via APK/XAPK/IPA. I archive "last-known-good" versions of software I like, before the developer adds telemetry, advertising, AI and drops support for my OS version.

All "Linux forks" (MacOS, iOS, Android, Playstation OSes) all solve the installer problem and have offline installers.

Linux is the outlier.