Post #4041038
2026-07-23 16:41 UTC
@veronica@explains.social
I suspect that this is an issue for people moving from Windows where app installers are pretty much either . MSI or . EXE and it just installs.
Linux seems the have too many ways to distribute an app. One or two standards would be enough, whatever those methods are 🙂🤷♂️
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@veronica@explains.social 2026-07-23 16:49
@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange "too many" is something I disagree with, in that I think for each distro it looks pretty much the same as Windows or Mac: Some kind of "store" (Windows Store/Mac App Store)Some kind of default software update mechanismSome kind of CLI repo (winget, brew)Independent packages (.exe, .dmg, .deb, .rpm) The ratios of the above might be different in different OSes, but the concepts are shared, I think. Where I think folks get bogged down is thinking of "Linux" as a monolith. Debian is a different operating system than Fedora. They both "are Linux" in family, but they are different OSes as far as how you use them and develop for them.