Ubuntu installers?

[Owen Thomas]

Please forgive/overlook my ignorance; I am led to believe that Apple's
desktop OS is OS X, not IOS. Correction within square brackets below is
also in bold text.

On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 17:41, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 at 16:51, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
>> > Please keep Ubuntu simple...
>>
>> this is something to say to all the EXTERNAL developers who package
>> their stuff only for installation via cpan, gem, pip, nodejs,
>> containers and so on. It's THEIR unavailability to do so that creates
>> the problem.
>>
>
> AFAIK, with all that you say about Ubuntu's problems, Windows has a
> single, and a simple way of installing software to which all software
> vendors of any significance use. So does *[OS X]*. Do they have similar
> problems? Being that I don't think they do, why then should Ubuntu? Is
> Ubuntu trying to nurse the varied preferences of its developer community at
> the expense of the usability of its OS?
>
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