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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by tsimionescu on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:11AM (#27350664)
Sure, but why? I can easily install the latest Firefox on Windows XP most likely (or could until a few years ago), but I can't on Ubuntu 20.04 (or couldn't until Firefox started doing auto updates on Ubuntu as well)?
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by pjmlp on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @04:44AM (#27351962)
Because Linux folks like to bash on Windows, while in reality they live like every application would be putting their stuff into C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP.

So naturally when all applications depend on the same shared libraries and configuration files, they need to be updated on a full swoop.

Yeah, when one knows their way around UNIX it is possible to actually install new software that works around this, but that is exactly the problem for most desktop users, "one knows their way around UNIX".

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by selfhoster11 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:49PM (#27373839)
> while in reality they live like every application would be putting their stuff into C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP.

I hate that you are correct, at least to some extent. In that analogy, the / directory is really C:/Windows, with everything attached under that.

What have we done. Perhaps Mac OS got at least one thing right: /Applications and /Users at the top level.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by anthk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:22PM (#27359036)
>C:\Windows, like Windows used to do in the old day pre-XP.

No.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by pjmlp on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:46AM (#27369295)
Yes.
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by mixmastamyk on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:56PM (#27358612)
And you can easily install the same from the snap store if that’s what you want. Linux always gives you choices.
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