Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again
by michaelmrose on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:22PM
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"There exist 3rd party package repositories on Windows too."
The MS store does NOT have user configurable repos for consumer versions of windows.
Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again
by NiveaGeForce on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:27PM
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You don't need the MS Store for 3rd party repositories.
Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again
by michaelmrose on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:54PM
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You: "No, the long term solution is to embrace the MS Store"
Me: No solution which gives a single party absolute control over what software a user is allowed to run is a long term solution.
Very soon it won't be 30% anymore.
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr...
> Linux package management works like an app store with an official source and the ability to add whichever sources you choose. A search of available packages shows results giving sources the priority set by the user. Updating the system updates packages from 3rd party sources same as others.
There exist 3rd party package repositories on Windows too.
> On windows nothing much is on the store mostly because people don't want to give Microsoft 30%
There is plenty of stuff in the MS Store. https://youtu.be/GCVhmKVRkk0
All my software, except for some dev tools and some games are from the MS Store.
> on Linux charging 30% is downright impossible because people would trivially publish an alternative source instead.
Steam is on Linux and charges 30%.
> Basically your cure is worse than the disease and since Microsoft wont fix the situation in a reasonable fashion so the only solution is to move off their platform.
Microsoft already provided a fix, called UWP.