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In all fairness to macOS. To it's weird design choices, both Linux and Windows should copy way of installing most of macOS programs. Downloading and mounting .DMG file, drag & dropping the app into Applications folder and done! Life would be so much simpler with it. And yes, I know apt install/pacman -S/dpkg -i/any other package manager is quicker, but average Joe doesn't care about it!

Then again, it would create yet ANOTHER package managing method supported by two distros that no one really cares for...

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  • 0
    6y
    @RantSomeWhere maybe. But I think there's a way to balance evenly functionality for power users with simplicity ment for the newbie.
  • 0
    6y
    You can make portable apps in Windows though, like exe files
  • 0
    6y
    @2lazy2debug yah men!

    It's hard to ask all user oriented distros to use a nearly same visual way of installing packages. but as this guy says, deb packages(don't know how many other formats you can do that) installing blows dmg stuff out of the water
  • 0
    6y
    I think they use a similar concept to the snap system. The problem here is that all dependencies have to be maintained by the app itself instead of relying on the package manager for that.
    And between drag & drop or pressing an install button there is no big difference in simplicity
  • 1
    6y
    @2lazy2debug @JhonDoe @StopMotionCuber how about making it actually work, because for me most of the times that method doesn't work! Maybe it's me, or maybe these 3 different machines have some kind of issues...
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