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Re:BSD-XFCE Installs macOS-Like XFCE Enviroment on FreeBSD by thaumasiotes on Friday October 21, 2022 @02:36AM (#33285185)
> Apps are just self-contained, launchable directories you can copy around, no separate installation step

That isn't specific to macOS. It's also a feature of BSD, Linux, and Windows.

But for reasons that escape me, software distributors keep adding an installation step anyway. This is something that's gotten worse since the days of DOS.

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Re:BSD-XFCE Installs macOS-Like XFCE Enviroment on FreeBSD by lproven on Saturday October 22, 2022 @08:28AM (#33297765)
> That isn't specific to macOS. It's also a feature of BSD, Linux, and Windows.

It really is not.

Have you ever used OS X?

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