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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by ardemue on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:49PM (#6637747)
What I enjoy the most on my Linux desktop is how it handles installing/upgrading software. It's just easy, and it works. When I'm on Windows I can't stand the google-download-execute-untick boxes-next-next cycles. This post is more about UI features though.
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by yogo on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:58PM (#6637785)
Agreed. pacman -Syu is a godsend. Of course that's just the face of a great package manager and packaging. In many ways on Arch you could make the argument that it just works.
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by ardemue on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:02PM (#6637813)
It does not get any better than pacman for sure, but I'm pretty happy with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade :)
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:56PM (#6638116)
The best package manager on Linux I've ever used is Sorcery, although pacman is a close second.

I'm still partial to the *BSD way of ports, however.

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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by yogo on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @07:33PM (#6638322)
Source-based distributions have their advantages but for me the biggest disadvantage is the wasting of my time.
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by wubbfindel on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @06:12PM (#6637871)
You should try out "chocolatey" on windows. It enough people adopt it, more packages will get on to it.
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by lucajona on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @07:52PM (#6638415)
Or Scoop at http://scoop.sh (I made it).
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by wubbfindel on Sunday November 03, 2013 @08:04AM (#6663060)
Looks interesting! Will look into it more closely.
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Re:Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop by ardemue on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @02:01PM (#6641974)
It looks good. But to me, until Microsoft does something about it, it's not really gonna take off. I thought Microsoft Installer would be it, but obviously it's not :/
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