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0 pointshaunter4y ago0 comments

>very Windowsy experience

>scary-looking command lines that mess with cryptographic keys

>for a real Windows experience, install from a deb and hope you remember where you got it from when it needs an update

Yeah I guess you didn't use Windows recently cause that never happens there

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Googling for an exe or msi installer is fundamentally the same thing. Unless it's in the Windows Store, which it probably isn't.

Once installed, unless it has it's own phone-home for updates, you won't know if it's out of date.

sph4y ago

To be fair googling for an exe is even worse. At least the weird apt incantations can be easily audited and understood by a proficient user, whereas on Windows you're running a binary downloaded from the Internet that you know is going to ask for superadmin permission to do its thing.

adhesive_wombat4y ago

A third-party repo is the same: it's also an "Internet binary".

The AUR is slightly different in that (usually, there are some binary packages) you could in principle check the sources and build process before building it right there and then installing to the system with elevated privileges.

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0 pointshaunter4y ago0 comments

>very Windowsy experience

>scary-looking command lines that mess with cryptographic keys

>for a real Windows experience, install from a deb and hope you remember where you got it from when it needs an update

Yeah I guess you didn't use Windows recently cause that never happens there

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adhesive_wombat4y ago

Googling for an exe or msi installer is fundamentally the same thing. Unless it's in the Windows Store, which it probably isn't.

Once installed, unless it has it's own phone-home for updates, you won't know if it's out of date.

sph4y ago

adhesive_wombat4y ago

A third-party repo is the same: it's also an "Internet binary".

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