XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 19:06:46 -0400, Paul wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 10/27/2025 5:35 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:54:41 +0000, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025/10/27 12:14:46, Alan K. wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>> "With Linux, almost every application you are going to run is   
   >>> provided by your distribution. … Windows and macOS users are   
   >>> accustomed to browsing the web, looking for applications, clicking   
   >>> a download link, and running an installer. With Linux we skip all   
   >>> of that. We can open the software centre (or "app store") and find   
   >>> just about anything we need."   
   >>>   
   >>> Sounds very Mac- (or modern-Windows-)like to me.   
   >>   
   >> Neither Apple nor Microsoft can offer such a high degree of   
   >> integrated package management. Apple has an app store for its   
   >> mobile platforms, not so much for actual Macintosh PCs. Microsoft   
   >> tried to create an app store for Windows, but so far, from what I   
   >> hear, it’s a barren desert.   
   >>   
   > The OS is a thousand packages in Windows, and when a Cumulative   
   > patch comes in, the scanner goes through the OS, and matches things   
   > needing patches, with the specific patch.   
      
   That only applies to the OS. Remember, on Linux distros, the package   
   management applies to *everything* -- there are packages for apps, for   
   libraries, for fonts, for localization, for icons, for SDKs -- all   
   managed through a common uniform architecture that handles   
   dependencies and versioning and ensuring that updates keep everything   
   compatible. And seamlessly accepts third-party package repositories,   
   too.   
      
   Microsoft and Apple have nothing like that.   
      
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