Package managers allow you to quickly install, manage, and delete programs (or apps, applications) from your operating system within a command-line interface. Different distros provide a variety of package managers, but all are straightforward.
This is to a large part because any kind of official package manager in Windows is immediately faced by a lot of backlash from the Windows users/developers as they rightly fear it will turn into a Playstore like locked system.
It really shows in what kind of abusive relationship Windows users are. I wish more of them would realize that and switch to GNU/Linux.
This is to a large part because any kind of official package manager in Windows is immediately faced by a lot of backlash from the Windows users/developers as they rightly fear it will turn into a Playstore like locked system.
Wouldn’t happen if they were like Linux and allowed users to change what repositories the package manager pulled from. I’ve never seen anyone complain about, for example, apt, dnf or pacman being restricted because you can just host your own package server.
This is to a large part because any kind of official package manager in Windows is immediately faced by a lot of backlash from the Windows users/developers as they rightly fear it will turn into a Playstore like locked system.
It really shows in what kind of abusive relationship Windows users are. I wish more of them would realize that and switch to GNU/Linux.
Wouldn’t happen if they were like Linux and allowed users to change what repositories the package manager pulled from. I’ve never seen anyone complain about, for example, apt, dnf or pacman being restricted because you can just host your own package server.
Then again, that wouldn’t be profitable, so…