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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Winget wasn't a thing until 2020, and they at least partially stole it from an open-source project AppGet

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Are you saying the meme is no longer relevant?

[-] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Those people would do all the same on Linux

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

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".

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago
[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

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".

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They do that for Windows

[-] onion@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

People are used to app stores on their phone, I don't think anybody is confused by e.g. gnome software

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