From: Optikos <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: linux desktop in trouble
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 08:32:23 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2020-03-20T08:32:23-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b11b23e7-fec1-4deb-ba63-2cb0b4e15f5c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r4vbhl$u5l$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 3:46:48 AM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2020-03-19 07:07, ldries46 wrote:
>
> > As a newcomer in the Linux world I can feel what he means. But I just
> > think that it is not so much the problem of the desktops themselve but
> > of the lack of standardized installation procedures. There should be
> > some installation programs as there are in windows, these programs
> > should be independent of the type of desktop you are using. And of
> > course they should be complete.
>
> Well, it is rather exactly the opposite. Windows has no standardized
> installation procedure and rules, at all.
Wrong! There are a plethora of extraordinarily strict rules that an app (either desktop or UWP) must obey to be admitted into the 1 official app distribution infrastructure: Microsoft Store.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/store-policies-and-code-of-conduct
Even if an x86/x64-only desktop app seeks to distribute through the Microsoft Store and forego ARM, Hololens, and Xbox deployments:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/desktop
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 15:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-03 9:45 linux desktop in trouble Mehdi Saada
2020-03-03 10:14 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2020-03-03 16:09 ` Optikos
2020-03-03 14:30 ` Shark8
2020-03-19 6:07 ` ldries46
2020-03-19 8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-03-20 15:32 ` Optikos [this message]
2020-03-20 20:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2020-03-20 21:58 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2020-03-24 10:01 ` ldries46
2020-03-24 10:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-03-24 15:27 ` Optikos
2020-03-22 17:27 ` mgr
2020-03-23 18:39 ` Bob Goddard
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