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Seriously who needs a Store App on a desktop OS? The process should be as simple as visiting app’s website, optionally paying, and installing. No middle man, hence less point of breakage.
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> By now, anyone still running indiansoft garbage deserves the pain. Indiansoft? Is this just casual racism or am I missing something?
Maybe you are missing the fact that when indians get a foothold in any organisation they start bringing in their own and blocking everyone else. No, I don't like indians or any other culture where corruption at every level is needed to get ahead. I don't see competent western people like, I don't know, Linus or Guido try to cloudify Linux or Python, try to bring it all down for personal gain, try to direct everyone to rent-a-program software once they have captive customers. There is a level of integrity in competent people that I don't see in cultures where the only way to get ahead is to be a nephew of the local califa, bow to ridiculous honor-culture, mafia-like code of silence, and promote stupidity and backwardness over logic and soundness. I'm saying what every other indian who has escaped their hellholes says about their own culture of absolute corruption at every level. Besides, I don't give a fuck about karma on this site. Besides, microsoft is a husk; anyone paying them is either captive or dumb.
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Well, the rest of the world (outside of MacOS and Windows) settled on repositories and package managers, with hash verification, versioning, updating/installing/uninstalling with composable commands (that can also be used via GUIs), etc. Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer.
I use package manager too regardless of OS, but after all Microsoft Store isn’t for tech-savvy people, right?
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Well, the rest of the world (outside of MacOS and Windows) settled on repositories and package managers, with hash verification, versioning, updating/installing/uninstalling with composable commands (that can also be used via GUIs), etc. Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer.
And yet none of those "outsiders" have figured out a way to economically renumerate developers for their work. Flathub had a initiative a few years ago to add payments to help developers fund their projects, but I haven't seen anything come out of it.
It's telling that even Microsoft itself doesn't believe in the Microsoft Store.
Seriously who needs a Store App on a desktop OS? The process should be as simple as visiting app’s website, optionally paying, and installing. No middle man, hence less point of breakage.
>No middle man
There usually is, very few software companies handle card transactions themselves. They usually farm it out to someone like Digital River (who aren't very trustworthy).
Seriously who needs a Store App on a desktop OS? The process should be as simple as visiting app’s website, optionally paying, and installing. No middle man, hence less point of breakage.
Well, the rest of the world (outside of MacOS and Windows) settled on repositories and package managers, with hash verification, versioning, updating/installing/uninstalling with composable commands (that can also be used via GUIs), etc. Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer.
I prefer good high-dpi support, Wifi and Bluetooth that works, usability, developers getting rewarded for their hard work, etc.
the installation story for devs writing windows apps has been dreadful for 3 decades. vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use. clickonce was launched to replace all this with hosted manifests and auto-updates and modern features like that, and immediately forgotten about because it was so broken. nobody ever used it. then they brought out WinUI and the windows store, which was so ove…
When I was developing C# winforms applications 15 years ago, I just created a fat signed .exe that was then distributed. Installers and click once stuff was a big turn off for users. On startup, if not already there, it automagically copied itself to the installation directory, created an autostart directory link and started it from the new location and got killed with a named pipe command. It contained and extracted…
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> vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use. Was it... REALLY though? Everyone knew how to use the setup wizards.
Using the setup wizards isn't the hard part... It's creating them.
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Well, the rest of the world (outside of MacOS and Windows) settled on repositories and package managers, with hash verification, versioning, updating/installing/uninstalling with composable commands (that can also be used via GUIs), etc. Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer.
>Use Fedora for half a year and tell me what you prefer. I prefer good high-dpi support, Wifi and Bluetooth that works, usability, developers getting rewarded for their hard work, etc.
FYI I develop software for Linux in my free time, I don't get paid and I feel pretty rewarded.