A nightmare you say. So that's why Windows 10 adopted Linux's concept of a software hub where you can just click what software you want installed. Linux had the app store first. Then mobile had it. Now windows 10.
I'm sure Microsoft moved toward doing that because they wanted to make people's lives harder and knew searching for binaries on the open internet was just too easy.
Next thing you know Microsoft will adopt a non-retarded shell like Bash. Oh, wait, they did. And you could have had it 10 years sooner. You'll have to adopt linux eventually as Microsoft slowly becomes like linux... Or you can just learn what you are going to learn any way an inch sooner and reap the benefits now.
When you install a program you download on Windows, you simply go through the installer on most programs and you install it to the Program Files.
Most people are going to have no idea what a .tar.gz is and how to install a program they download on Linux distros. They won't have any idea how to navigate the file system. bin sys opt proc, they have no idea what that is or which folder houses the programs.
In Mac OS, for the most part you simply drag the dmg to the applications folder, it's done with a GUI. Same with Windows, usually a GUI installer. With many Linux distros, if there is a piece of software they want to install outside of the included repository, they will have no idea how to install it.
If the average boomer can't figure it out, most people will not be able to. Mac and Windows are much easier to use for the average person who thinks Bash is to smash something. Most Windows and Mac users have no idea that there is a terminal included with their OS.
98% of non-technical users never need to know what a tar.gz file is. And if they do, it's not complicated. It's just a zip file. People know what that is. Most people don't know what a .bat file is. I guess they can't use windows. Most users don't know what their system32 does or how to use their registry. Why would the average user have to understand /proc? People are already used to the idea of a large number of the files on their system being irrelevant to them.
How are they going to install any Linux distro? They won't be able to create a live disk, or even know what that means.
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