• this_is_router@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What? That is easiest one of the worst parts of windows. It’s just that people are used to this dumb endeavour

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      1 year ago

      Why do you think its bad? From a secruity standpoint its obviously not great, but its undeniably more convenient than running a curl command to pull in a third party .repo file, yum update and yum install to get something that isnt easily available in my base repos.

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        1 year ago

        Flatpak and AppImage are trying to make that easier, since they both work the same on pretty much any distro, but not everything is packaged that way yet.

        Flatpak is closer to the typical package manager model, where you install things from a graphical store or the command line, while AppImages are self-contained binaries that you download from the developer and run as-is without installing.

        Snaps also exist, but they don’t work well outside of Ubuntu and its descendants…

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          1 year ago

          I like Flatpak for what it is. It’s great. But I wish that the application IDs weren’t so long.

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            1 year ago

            I think if they were categories instead of reverse domain names, it would at least be easier to remember. As it is now they’re mostly just meaningless, and I think it would be better if you could refer to apps with only the last part as long as it wouldn’t create a name collision.

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        1 year ago

        Nothing more convenient then a central “app store”. apt search, apt install is all I need. But I undersntd that people don’t like it, that don’t know it.

        What’s convenient about googling for software, downloading ominous files and clicking through an install wizard and most likely installing some adware and unwanted search bars? It’s crazy people see it like that.

        Even the other posters in this thread are talking about flatpak and appimage. I’ll never understand that way of thought.