• Crass Spektakel@lemmy.world
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    When I last installed Windows I had to google where do download Libreoffice, Firefox, Steam, Audacity, VLC, Gimp and a lot more software.

    On Linux most came preinstalled, the rest was one click in the Repository (“Store” for Generation Smartphone)

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      When I last installed Windows I had to google where do download […] On Linux most came preinstalled

      You can’t have it both ways.

      On one day, you complain about all the so called “bloatware” that’s preinstalled on Windows (more “pre-linked” and easily installed, and these “links” are easily deleted).

      The next day, you complain that the specific subset of software you want to use is not preinstalled on Windows.

      Lastly, the way you go about finding where to get your software, that’s more of a philosophical question. Do I want someone else to curate a list of available software, or do I want to visit the publisher’s website and get it directly from the source?

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        At least on Debian/Ubuntu I can use tasksel to select a useful preset of packages right while installing. Base is just a text mode shell with minimal command line tools, Server has some Network Stuff, LXQT, Gnome and so on… for the total N00b it is fine to default to KDE or Gnome, I prefer LXQT though. And tbh, I think Firefox, Libreoffice and VLC are useful preinstall in nearly every use case while the usual stuff on Windows is pretty useless (Another Antivirus? Really? A trial version of a paint programm inferior to Gimp 1.0? Office 365?)

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          while the usual stuff on Windows is pretty useless

          “useless” or “useful” to you. That’s my point. Someone who does not have any use for Libreoffice will get just as annoyed as you would get with a pre-linked Office-Suite.

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        1 year ago

        Chocolatey, winget

        All that stuff they listed is packaged, versioned, and handled. I’m pretty sure there’s gui’s too, if you’re into that

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          For chocolatey, maybe. I haven’t seen a Winget GUI yet.

          Microsoft really should do that, but I think the “but what about our App Store numbers” guys would rather that didn’t happen. I don’t believe that anybody outside of people who were already otherwise Linux users has touched winget.