XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-31 05:33, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > Alan wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-30 13:19, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >> "installing an application takes mere seconds."   
   >>   
   >>>> Data is data, it doesn't magically come down the pipe faster to a   
   >>>> Linux system.   
   >>>   
   >>> And yet they do.   
   >   
   > The reason is that a Linux application usually finds that all of   
   > the dependencies it needs are *already* installed. Saves time.   
   >   
   >> Give an example.   
   >>   
   >> Show me a Linux app the equivalent of a macOS app that magically   
   >> installs in "seconds".   
   >   
   > On a Debian system, updating/installing 300 packages takes a few   
   > minutes.   
   >   
   > As for a specific package: OBS Studio   
   >   
      
   Really bad example.   
      
   I just downloaded OBS Studio for an Apple Silicon Mac.   
      
   That took 4 seconds.   
      
   Mounted the DMG.   
      
   1-2 seconds   
      
   Copied the application to the Applications folder   
      
   Another 2 or 3 seconds.   
      
   You were saying?   
      
   (If you doubt me, I'll make a screen video of it).   
      
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