Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

windows and linux users' reactions to how macos software is shipped in a .dmg disk image are always funny. what, you think it's strange to package files into a filesystem for distribution? what do you think .zip, .tar.gz and .iso files are then? :3

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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari it's not the "in a filesystem" part of it that bothers me. It's that there's no package management to speak of. It's just..."here's some files".

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉)

@swelljoe why do you need a package manager if the package is self-contained?

Saagar Jha

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari @swelljoe Updates are annoying if everyone rolls them by themselves

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @swelljoe this is true. it's always bothered me that windows and macos software don't have standard ways to be updated (but this is microsoft and apple's fault for not wanting to make that possible without buying into their store projects)

Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

(replying to Iwasawa 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

‪look, if you're gonna bundle files into a filesystem, may as well use a good one‬