this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Are you saying any sort of majority of PC software is now delivered via winget?
'Standard' in this context is referring to the frequency/popularity of use, especially among the people for whom file extensions would be confusing.
Those people would do all the same on Linux
They'd find it rather difficult to just download programs from random websites and run them, considering the file will not be marked executable by default and they can't just "download and double-click".
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45073771/appimage-on-github-releases-executable-permission#:~:text=If%20you%20would%20like%20to%20have%20all%20AppImages,downloaded%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAppImage%2FAppImageKit%2Freleases%20or%20installed%20from%20your%20distribution.
Yea... Exactly... Thanks for providing evidence for me.
People going out and downloading random crap from shady websites clogging up their windows install with malware are not going to spend any amount of time troubleshooting why the random crap they downloaded doesn't do anything when they double-click it. They likely won't even know what to search for to find the solution to their "problem".
They do that for Windows