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The last time I used Windows seriously, which was Windows 10, this was not the case. If that's changed then great. But we need to acknowledge that Windows software install is changing to become more Linux-ified. With package managers and repos out of the box. Clearly the Linux model is more secure, and Microsoft knows it. It's a good idea for Microsoft to take inspiration here. It's only a matter of time before they do containerization too, ala Flatpak. The biggest hurdle to that is Windows doesn't have native containers and the entire container ecosystem is build around Linux. If Microsoft wanted my advice, which they don't, I think it would cost less at this point to just make Windows a Linux distro. Wine is already better at running older Windows software than Windows. Just expand Wine a bit, add in acceleration where it doesn't already exist, and boom you're done. Nobody would even notice. And maybe then Windows on ARM wouldn't suck so much. |
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Apps like Chrome and Spotify have been doing it for almost 20 years, since they made their Windows apps back in 2008. Python updated their installer to install to the user profile in 2015 with version 3.5.0. VSCode started doing it in 2018. Discord did it at launch in 2015. Zoom and Teams and Slack do it and have for a long time. Its been a pretty common pattern for a long time.
> Windows doesn't have native containers
Windows supports Windows containers natively and has supported Windows containers for a decade.
> maybe then Windows on ARM wouldn't suck so much.
Windows on Arm these days really isn't bad. It definitely sucked a lot several years ago with tons of compatibility issues (along the timeframe you said you last used it seriously), but they've made massive improvements since.