Try talking Grandma over the phone to help her share her photo directory with Aunt Jeanine, on the same PC. No command line allowed, and you know she can only focus on that type of task for 4, maybe 5 minutes top.
That wouldn't work reliably under Windows, either, as nobody knows anything about files and directories generically anymore.
(That's the reason why first the Windows explorer was suddenly sufficent enough and then almost completely disregarded)
A public folder on the same PC is way harder to explain than just telling your photo app to share it with your resident spying company/cloud provider, despite how wasteful the round trip is.
Not that that has anything to do with a discussion about the "unix way" as a special case or even superset of IDEs.
I can't imagine any system where you'd have a good chance of succeeding in that scenario without some kind of remote administration tool. Remote controlling a user over the phone is difficult, unreliable and time-consuming.
Bullshit. You're talking about an operating system where the common advice for someone who wants to install up to date software is to fucking compile it from source because the whole community never got their collective shit together enough to allow developers to directly distribute binaries without a gigantic fucking headache.
Christ, it's such a fucking mess that one of the most compatible ways to distribute software is to write it for Windows and rely on WINE.
Hardly. I've maybe had to do that 5 times in the last...10 years?
And I split my time between Arch, CentOS & OpenBSD. The vast majority of things these days are packaged in a useful way. There's also flatpak and similar now.
Only after a third party makes an AUR for it. I'll stick to an OS where the developer can publish directly to the users without 15 different packaging formats, thanks.
No, the developer can choose one of these. As a user, I have to deal with all of them because I cannot choose how the developer distributes it and there is no standard. If I could choose, I'd use AppImage for everything (since it is the only one that is portable) but I can't do that.
Completely unnecessary on Windows since it is an operating system, not a kludge of random source code from the internet.
> I mean, flatpak, appimage, docker, etc ...
Which of those is ubiquitous enough to ensure availability of what you're looking for in that format? In my experience: none of them. AppImage is easily the best, but the community seems to hate it because it makes things too flexible and simple or something.
Where, pray tell, do people who write the software for this "operating system" store their source code if not somewhere that is connected to the internet? Do they use punch cards?
> Which of those is ubiquitous enough to ensure availability of what you're looking for in that format?
Have not met someone who hates AppImage. flatpak is also rather ubiquitous. I use both every day.
