Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:06PM
(#30950897)
> Downloading and executing an MSI does not seem to be a meaningfully different operation than writing the apt-get command;
For fetching development libraries, it's huge.
If I run `make` and it turns out I need libfrobnicate-dev, I can just quickly `sudo apt install libfrobnicate-dev`. I don't need to pull up a browser, Google it, find the MSI, make sure I'm grabbing the right version (Seriously why the hell does 32-bit Windows still exist?), download, and run it.
Oh, and what about when that dev library gets a new version? `sudo apt upgrade`. Done. All my libraries get updated, no need to track down 20 MSIs.
For fetching development libraries, it's huge.
If I run `make` and it turns out I need libfrobnicate-dev, I can just quickly `sudo apt install libfrobnicate-dev`. I don't need to pull up a browser, Google it, find the MSI, make sure I'm grabbing the right version (Seriously why the hell does 32-bit Windows still exist?), download, and run it.
Oh, and what about when that dev library gets a new version? `sudo apt upgrade`. Done. All my libraries get updated, no need to track down 20 MSIs.