Same experience, but trying to install a program that doesn't include its dependencies, then finding out the dependency hasn't been updated since 2004 or something.
This is a huge thing that Linux purists can't seem to get over. Things like flatpak and snap need to become commonplace and easy to set up and well documented for application developers if anyone is going to use desktop software on Linux.
flatpak is cool, especially since it actually tries to sandbox apps instead of letting a single game access all your personal information if it wanted to
Yeah if Linux is going to try to do some of the stuff Windows can do, it needs to do it much better (i.e. sandboxing, privacy, ease of use). That's the only way you're going to get people to switch. It should also be easier on the developer side, which I think is probably not necessarily the case right now. I'm not sure how easy it is to develop a flatpak app or which programming languages you can use with it easily.
Same experience, but trying to install a program that doesn't include its dependencies, then finding out the dependency hasn't been updated since 2004 or something.
This is a huge thing that Linux purists can't seem to get over. Things like flatpak and snap need to become commonplace and easy to set up and well documented for application developers if anyone is going to use desktop software on Linux.
flatpak is cool, especially since it actually tries to sandbox apps instead of letting a single game access all your personal information if it wanted to
Yeah if Linux is going to try to do some of the stuff Windows can do, it needs to do it much better (i.e. sandboxing, privacy, ease of use). That's the only way you're going to get people to switch. It should also be easier on the developer side, which I think is probably not necessarily the case right now. I'm not sure how easy it is to develop a flatpak app or which programming languages you can use with it easily.