Re: linux desktop in trouble

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Optikos" <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Sure, but does anyone actually use that for desktop software? I've never 
once gotten anything from it.

Note that Microsoft has had such requirements for decades (for instance, to 
get a "logo"), but those have been widely ignored. Especially for cheap/free 
software and highly speciallized software.

I believe I spent the time to read them once. ;-) That's it. Microsoft sets 
requirements to make Microsoft money; little actually helps the users (and 
when they accidentally land on something that does help users, they change 
it in a year or to because someone had a better idea).

                                    Randy.