| > Giving the party running the store 30% of all revenue is a hard sale to start with. Very soon it won't be 30% anymore. https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/05/07/a-new-micr... > Linux package management works like an app store with an official source and the ability to add whichever sources you choose. A search of available packages shows results giving sources the priority set by the user. Updating the system updates packages from 3rd party sources same as others. There exist 3rd party package repositories on Windows too. > On windows nothing much is on the store mostly because people don't want to give Microsoft 30% There is plenty of stuff in the MS Store. https://youtu.be/GCVhmKVRkk0 All my software, except for some dev tools and some games are from the MS Store. > on Linux charging 30% is downright impossible because people would trivially publish an alternative source instead. Steam is on Linux and charges 30%. > Basically your cure is worse than the disease and since Microsoft wont fix the situation in a reasonable fashion so the only solution is to move off their platform. Microsoft already provided a fix, called UWP. |
The MS store does NOT have user configurable repos for consumer versions of windows.