If you download Firefox on a linux machine today what you get from their servers is a pretty unfriendly tarball. What are you supposed to do with this? Maybe you know how to extract a tarball. Maybe you even know what of the many files inside it you're actually supposed to run and how to run it? Maybe.
But does everyone else? Do non-developer users have any clue what they're doing with this thing? They experience is awful.
I want to see that change and followed a ticket that tracks just that. What do you think?
But does everyone else? Do non-developer users have any clue what they're doing with this thing? They experience is awful.
I want to see that change and followed a ticket that tracks just that. What do you think?
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"People want something they search for it"
Exactly: they use yum search or the apt/zypper equivalent.
And *if* you are such a user that you have to do this, isn't it likely that you are savvy enough to deal with a tarball (or know that you should really prefer installing a prebuilt and pretested package for your distro instead)?
Just my $0.02