It absolutely can, I have several portable apps with self updating ability built in, when I use them it prompts me if I want to update or not, I personally appreciate that in certain cases.
I do dislike when they throw config files all over the place, so cleanup becomes very messy if I need to remove something.
Again tho, natively on windows there isn’t a great way to do that anyway, the windows store sucks and not many will use the package managers via cmd either.
The documentation fucking sucks tho,
Kind of a moot point since most windows programs don’t have a centralized hub for updates either, even when “properly installed” in program files.
Me except I was smart and made my email just my name.
Yeah, TBF it’s just a silly meme, but I also immediately didn’t agree with safari being listed as neutral lol
Blink is based on Webkit too
I am a Linux fan, but I hadn’t really paid much attention to snaps/flataks/appimages, had mostly been a Debian-based distro user in my younger years, so knew about debs and tars (bleh) and of course apt, but I mostly daily drove windows for a long time.
Came back to the Linux world on a whim on my extra old laptop to give it new life (same thing I had done back when I was like 12) -(EDIT: remembered) bounced around between distros like Fedora, popos, etc but ended up with EndevourOS as I knew I wanted to try an Arch based distro, it didn’t run as well as I’d liked and I messed up some package on AUR so I ended up wiping that after a few months and tried out Bazzite, very different then I was used to and is the only reason I’ve actually learned about appimages/flatpaks.
Then I turned my old gaming PC into a proxmox box, set up Ubuntu server and started playing around with docker (which made way more sense after getting to know container based programs from Bazzite).
Anyway, no point to be made there aside from… Flatpaks and the like are just a different way of doing things, which necessitates learning.
I get the point being made about defaults being important as a first user experience is extremely important if you’re wanting to keep a user, but there is something to be said for a little common sense that you have to be able to try to learn a little when you’re doing something new.
Alas, I work in a customer service adjacent role in fintech so I know all too well that users hate to learn lmfao
And many don’t seem to know how to find information, like when I ran into exactly that situation where I was trying to attach a file by dragging and dropping from dolphin into FF and nothing happening. So I immediately went to Kagi (at the time, have since switched to self hosted searxng) and searched “unable to drag and drop file into Firefox browser bazzite” and very quickly found my answer. Alas Google fu is a skill many are sorely lacking
Flatseal helps with managing flatpak perms, but yeah it’s not at all intuitive
I have been in for a couple months now, Proxmox cluster with two machines.
Works out nicely as I crash the first one too often and the DHCP going down was unacceptable, wish I got a slightly better cpu for the minipc but meh, maybe I can upgrade it later.
Lmao alright bud, there’s really no reason to get so worked up about this.
I did read what you wrote, just gave alternate aspects of the conversation from my viewpoint, that’s generally how discussions work.
I find it a bit funny you say the windows store is fine yet haven’t/don’t use it, not sure how you can talk about it’s functionality from a point of ignorance so strongly.
I understand your viewpoint and even agreed, simply also stating I appreciate portable applications, some things they can implement that mitigate the need for a centralized update location, and some of the downsides I’ve come across while using them (that do play into your point, that a centralized way of managing them is cleaner if implented properly)