this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Winget is their standard packaging solution
The rest is accurate but it’s user error
Winget wasn't a thing until 2020, and they at least partially stole it from an open-source project AppGet
Are you saying the meme is no longer relevant?
Are you saying any sort of majority of PC software is now delivered via winget?
'Standard' in this context is referring to the frequency/popularity of use, especially among the people for whom file extensions would be confusing.
Those people would do all the same on Linux
They'd find it rather difficult to just download programs from random websites and run them, considering the file will not be marked executable by default and they can't just "download and double-click".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45073771/appimage-on-github-releases-executable-permission#:~:text=If%20you%20would%20like%20to%20have%20all%20AppImages,downloaded%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAppImage%2FAppImageKit%2Freleases%20or%20installed%20from%20your%20distribution.
Yea... Exactly... Thanks for providing evidence for me.
People going out and downloading random crap from shady websites clogging up their windows install with malware are not going to spend any amount of time troubleshooting why the random crap they downloaded doesn't do anything when they double-click it. They likely won't even know what to search for to find the solution to their "problem".
They do that for Windows
People are used to app stores on their phone, I don't think anybody is confused by e.g. gnome software
Have yiubused Winget? It's a very flawed piece of software.
winget doesn't even work properly. I tried installing gcc with it and it installed some random chinese package.
winget install -e --id libjpeg-turbo.libjpeg-turbo.GCC
?
too late now, I wiped it with a nice EndeavourOS install ages ago
I thought winget was the Linux cli tool for downloading from http. What tool am I thinking of?
Wget?
Oui oui weget
Yes! Thanks! I had a major brain fart!!