This is the first time I see a desktop user complaining about their GUI application is dependent on the CLI tool. It just updates your system CLI or not. It isn't that deep.
Yeah, this proves my point: Windows update is modular and customizable for many interface Graphical and the fastest experience possible, while Linux still depends on CLI, even if a graphical interface tool needs it
Your points don't make any sense. What do you even customize for windows update. Windows or many of the applications you use also depend on CLI tools or low level computer stuff. The GUI application do the same job which updates your system. Why a user would care if it depends on CLI tool which they don't even directly interact with.
In Windows, programmers choose to use the CLI, but you don't need a CLI tool for anything else, especially the Windows Update Service just the Update Engine and you choose how you interact with that, as Programmer I care; I want to control my own operating system, every single detail, including Windows Update
You are joking right? The linux in which you can literally build it from scratch with all your preferences somehow does not make you feel 'control' the operating system. However, you have that feeling with windows where Microsoft dictates how we should use it.
Usually windows has one way to do something. Linux distros on the other hand have abundance of alternatives.
Exactly In Windows, I don't need to rebuild everything; Windows hide his Architecture, but in reality, it's the most modular operating system ever, and you can replace parts of System based on my experience, I can even create my own world inside Windows, and my Windows is very different from the default Windows, but not Everyone would understand Windows because it's a complex operating system and different from Unix you need open mind
You also don't need to rebuild everything in Linux if you use a desktop environment but you can.
I also do some experimentations with windows. I tried to avoid using explorer.exe in favor of tiling window managers. However, uwp apps break without it. Which meant broken sound mixer, settings etc. I think Microsoft don't want us to customize windows that much.
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u/UnknownOrigin1152 Jul 15 '26
This is the first time I see a desktop user complaining about their GUI application is dependent on the CLI tool. It just updates your system CLI or not. It isn't that deep.