• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    1 day ago

    On smartphones people are used to package managers already. Imagine everyone had to download the executables for every update for each app on their phone, going to their website downloading and such. That’s basically how Windows works. Such a Stone Age.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s the kind of thing that took me years to get comfortable with but these days it should be standard, provided we also have the ability to manually install our own shit (sideeyeing Google’s upcoming garbage policy)

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah, Linux has blown my mind in that regard. Like, how has windows fucked up the Microsoft Store so goddamn hard?