| Suppose websites don't change. What should Linux do about: 1. Packages only offering building from source for the Linux crowd. 2. Packages with soft DRM, offering Windows builds easily and Linux builds referencing the forums. 3. Packages with hard DRM, actively rejecting attempts to run on Linux. 4. "Downloads" built for YUM or APT or whatever. 5. "Downloads" which are basically just scripts designed to shit all over your directory structure and do the real installation later. 6. Downloads only available for a particular distro, and only then by trusting a third-party repo and otherwise doing key-based shenanigans. ... I bet you could get a decent chunk of the way there with a script turning the "normal" install procedure from that above garbage into a nice desktop icon and an easily deletable binary (with an associated uninstallation script), but people package software differently for Linux than they do for other OS's, and unless you change that part of the culture or manually package a lot more things I don't think you'll solve that particular problem. |
Have you looked at
https://www.clearlinux.org/ https://github.com/clearlinux
https://cachyos.org/ https://github.com/CachyOS
https://mxlinux.org/ https://github.com/MX-Linux ?
Would they lack anything? I picked these three specifically because I tested them recently on new hardware I got.
What they have in common is their focus on encapsulating 4. for mere mortals, while not doing 5, or at least not more so than it's common for Windows.