Subj : Computer operating system of choice?
To   : Joacim Melin
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Feb 14 2022 16:08:08

  Re: Computer operating system of choice?
  By: Joacim Melin to boraxman on Mon Feb 07 2022 10:01 am

 JM> I use MacOS because I like it when shit works. I don't like Windows, and I

I see people say Mac just works, but most of the time these days I haven't had any major problems running Windows.  I can't remember the last time I was really frustrated with something going seriously wrong in Windows.

 JM> Let's say I install Fedora (my personal distro of choice), and then I want
 JM> to install Skype. This is not in the software center application until I
 JM> install some other repo (Flatpack, for example). Why isn't that enabled
 JM> from the start? 

The thing is that there is a lot of software from independent companies; also, new software can come and go.  If a new piece of software appears that wasn't around when a Linux distro was made, then naturally it wouldn't be in the software repository.  I think that's always going to happen, and I can't really see a way to ensure that users would always be able to find all software in one central repository.

 JM> Maybe Linux would benifit from a package installer like ones available on
 JM> MacOS and Windows - download a file and click on it to install it. 

In some ways, that's already possible.  Even if a piece of software doesn't appear in your Linux repo (i.e., if you don't have their repo set up), you can often still download the package and install it through your distribution's software manager.  Aside from that, if software authors follow the standard procedure, you can often download the source code, and on the command line you can do a 'make' and 'make install' to build and install it (though that doesn't always 'just work'; also, doing it that way, the software manager doesn't keep track of it, so uninstalling it can be a bit messy).

Nightfox
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