XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/10/28 23:14:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:18:45 +0000, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025/10/28 1:20:41, Felix wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Linux makes upgrades/updates so much easier. no need to stuff   
   >>> around with third party apps. another reason I love it.   
   >>>   
   >> That sounds very like the walled garden - what if I should _want_ to   
   >> "stuff around" with a third part "app"?   
   >   
   > You have the choice. You can download things and build from source.   
      
   That seems to crop up more often than I'd expect. I don't think I've   
   _ever_ had to "build from source" for Windows things (granted, I'm not   
   usually offered the _opportunity_, except things on github).   
      
   > Quite often you will find that somebody else has done the work, and   
   > offers a third-party repository that hooks into the standard   
   > package-management system so you can install from there as easily as   
   > you can from the standard distro repos.   
      
   So, basically, like Windows - just you have to stick with the chosen   
   flavour, or spend a lot of time managing.   
      
   >   
   > There are distros -- like Gentoo -- where *everything* on your system   
   > is built by you, from source.   
   Thirty or forty years ago, I might have liked that opportunity. Now, I   
   CBA. Not necessarily proud of that, but am certainly not alone (possibly   
   even in the majority, though not here).   
      
      
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