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I know RPMs and DEBs follow a fairly strict patter, in that they keep track of everything installed so it can easily be cleaned up. Why can't Microsoft launch its own set of standards that achieve the same goal?
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I don't feel gated at all by my linux installation. If I want I can customize everything, but at least I don't have to deal with a thousand installers and update processes on a day by day basis.
I love dnf and apt, but I dread attempting to uninstall anything using them.
Yes, also on servers I run arch... let's me sleep better :)
Honest question, how come I can install Steam, Signal, Teams and other "modern" apps on linux without the same issues that Microsoft Windows has? I know RPMs and DEBs follow a fairly strict patter, in that they keep track of everything installed so it can easily be cleaned up. Why can't Microsoft launch its own set of standards that achieve the same goal?
If Microsoft just made uninstalling work properly themselves maybe people wouldn’t have to resort to uninstallers in the first place
Microsoft makes Explorer an integral, unremovable, ever-present part of Windows. Raymond Chen gets very upset when people modify it. Smells of hypocrisy to me. Let go of the de-facto Explorer monopoly and you won't have to deal with these types of problems.
On Windows any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware, but so are many other things on Windows.
Software shouldn't uninstall or update itself. There should be a package manager to do this. Then at least you have one attack vector less per application.
I keep forgetting Windows-isms that won't allow you to delete the executable file of a running process. I guess that's also why the arcane .dll upgrade process / WoW is so necessary.
Imagine knowing where each file in the system comes from. Imagine having a package system, instead of that crap.
Imagine having 2,000 different config file formats you have to edit within a terminal instead of a central registry hive. Imagine a file explorer that doesn't simply prompt for admin rights when you need them, instead silently failing.
Imagine using a file explorer you don't like.
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It's never a security flaw that a program running with administrator privileges is allowed to do something.
It's a security flaw that too many programs have too many privileges. Windows should have pervasive fine grained permissions like any other modern OS.
The OS isn't to blame when people give root access left and right.
Actually this is why macOS got SIP.