exe, msi, sh… It’s honestly not very difficult to get the difference between debs and other formats, and you don’t have to either. You open the app store or download a .deb from a webpage and you’re done.
There’s bits where Linux is too fragmented, but for most distros with a good appstore setup, this flat out isn’t one of them.
I switched recently and it took a while to be a ‘power user’ again, but the mainstream functionality works and makes sense about the same as Windows.
This sentence is a great example of why it’s not:
exe, msi, sh… It’s honestly not very difficult to get the difference between debs and other formats, and you don’t have to either. You open the app store or download a .deb from a webpage and you’re done.
There’s bits where Linux is too fragmented, but for most distros with a good appstore setup, this flat out isn’t one of them.
I switched recently and it took a while to be a ‘power user’ again, but the mainstream functionality works and makes sense about the same as Windows.