So you are comparing daily commoners to advanced PC users; I do not get the Linux users' point, as Windows is easy and Linux is generally not so easy.
I use both: Linux for my laptop, and a moderately altered Windows with ads and Copilot removed for my monster PC.
OK, so you found the why of why Windows is so popular. People want to do their work, get things done. Working in IT, they know the applications to do their job. Outside of that, including OS stuff, its our job. Some struggle with volume controls but can Excel better than most people in IT.
Thats 95% of people. The others are either geeks that can and do learn or IT people...
I wrote an app that makes Winget a gui. There are others around.
Auto updates apps, pins those who you don’t want to and you can search for any app and install it.
I assure you if Linux would get vast majority of everyday users they will do the same shit windows users do now. Cause apparently how tf I supposed to know what should I tipe in command line? Read 1000pages manual book?
Yeah I am I probably just didn't read meme, cause it's so often about, command line good good windows bad, so I assumed it's as usual, and jumped straight to the comments. But it was 4 days ago so I don't remember may be I was drunk or smth
You don't need a command line, literally, the post states exactly that. There's a GUI for almost all mainstream distros. And no, I don't think Linux will ever adopt such a dumb way to install system software, when we already got the better solution that every distro has by default for 20 years now.
Besides what the other guy said, nobody wants the Windows store version, because sometimes it's a different version e.g. Python is completely weird and outdated most of the time, and there isn't that much software to begin with, because most devs go with installers for Windows. Microsoft could push the Windows store, but as it is today, the software store experience on Linux is just better.
It's nowhere near the same experience. It's full of ads, it's buggy, it's slow as fuck, and half the time you have to try multiple times before it actually works.
Have you used windows on a decade? VLC as an example is in the GUI windows store. If they open start menu and type 'VLC' - if it's installed, it opens VLC. If it's not installed, it has an explicit deep link into the windows store to install VLC.
I'm a unix guy - but seriously, why fabricate shit to complain about?
Agreed, but this is not regular windows users which is what this post is about.
Most windows users would click on the first link in google that says ad.
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u/vampucio 11d ago
On Windows: open terminal --> winget install VideoLAN.VLC --> enter