Alt text: Trojan Horse meme, Steam Deck bringing Linux to Windows gamers

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      6 hours ago

      There a Debian installs that are like 20 years old. They have been continuously updated over time.

      An old install doesn’t mean no updates

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        Yeah I’m not really sure why an old install means not updating it or anything on it.

        Also, just because it’s windows, doesn’t mean there aren’t package managers. And I DON’T want to update a ton of stuff for production reasons. I’m not sitting over here blindly. Are there are a lot of Linux users that think Windows users are morons or something?

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          Windows doesn’t have true package managers. It is honestly a lot like app images on Linux. They do work but the core design is very different due to Windows not being designed to work with a package manager.

          On Linux App images are kind of like a exe except that Linux isn’t designed with stand alone executables in mind so doing seemingly simple things like integrating them with the OS is hard. It isn’t that they are bad but the design isn’t necessarily aligned with traditional Linux. Same thing with package managers on Windows. They just download a exe from a link and then run it. Package managers on Windows are just software updaters.