Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
by inetknght on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:44PM
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> You've missed the point.
Maybe.
> ultimately it comes down to this: "You can fix it yourself!" isn't really true. Professional programmers who work on Linux for a living haven't even managed to fix a lot of its problems.
I could say the same thing about every OS.
> The whole point of AppImage is that that's completely unnecessary.
Unnecessary to you perhaps. Being able to see the source code of applications I run is important to many Linux users.
> The only thing that really aught to be done is that file managers should display AppImage icons and not harass the user about double clicking one to run it.
I don't see why AppImage should be treated any differently than any other executable -- trusted or not. If that's not how it is now then you definitely have a point.
Maybe.
> ultimately it comes down to this: "You can fix it yourself!" isn't really true. Professional programmers who work on Linux for a living haven't even managed to fix a lot of its problems.
I could say the same thing about every OS.
> The whole point of AppImage is that that's completely unnecessary.
Unnecessary to you perhaps. Being able to see the source code of applications I run is important to many Linux users.
> The only thing that really aught to be done is that file managers should display AppImage icons and not harass the user about double clicking one to run it.
I don't see why AppImage should be treated any differently than any other executable -- trusted or not. If that's not how it is now then you definitely have a point.
Have you built any AppImage-based programs?