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You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went (www.osnews.com)

submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I somehow forgot you had to download every program yourself and update it yourself or put up with a third party update app at all times. I’ve only been away from Windows for like a year but it’s like “I completely forgot about that”.

The author exaggerates how bad it is, to be honest. The built in winget package manager solved most of my needs for installing and updating software while I was still using Windows, and what it left is no worse than the situation on Linux. There are also alternatives to winget, like Chocolatey.

In some ways the situation is actually worse on Linux, since I regularly use 4 different package managers on Linux: apt, flatpak, pixi/conda, and uv/pip, on top of having to manually download and install software, some of which I have to compile myself

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you used the GUI app you probably wouldn't see that your system uses different package standards

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The GUI that came with my distro only covers 2 of the 4 package managers I mentioned. And I'd have to use a GUI

[–] psud@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Is there a good reason to use more package managers? When I need packages that aren't provided by the distro I'm using, I change distro

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Yes. Firstly because no distro has everything in their respositores, and secondly because different package managers serve different purposes.

The closest to an all-encompassing package manager is perhaps Arch with AUR, though you are forced to use tools beyond pacman if you want actual package management for the AUR packages. AUR has also shown itself to be a massive liability, since the only way the project has been able to cover as much software as it does, is by doing next to no vetting of the submitted packages. With predictable results