Right, the few times I used tar.gz it was basically just a portable app, which isn’t how I think about “installing” programs usually.

Is maliciously hiding it any different functionally for an end user compared to having to look up the setting/command needed to modify a setting?

I am a techy windows/Linux user and I just have used winaero tweaker to disable all the junk (since back on win 7)

Im glad KDE plasma and Linux in general have been making strides at having more easily accessible options

I will add, I agree with your point in general, just don’t think it holds much weight for normies (or even intermediate users) because of the end user experience being functionally the same in many circumstances.

True, but one could say the same about terminal in Linux lol, I know it’s gotten a lot better, but I remember many times having to edit archaic settings via terminal commands because of weird driver issues, don’t even get me started on trying to fix GRUB entries lol

Woops I did actually mean tar.gz files lmao

Registry editor is a gui tho

I still don’t fully know how to install rpm files lmao, that’s how I learned about Apt back on linux mint, don’t remember what I was trying to install as it was like 15 years ago. Deb files were nice because they did work like a windows user would expect.

I leave it on, only really need it for installing programs, even them a lot of them go into app data these days by default

Check out PowerToys fancyzones feature if you haven’t yet.

Then next time you can search the channel to find the post with the information you need.

Lmao I was going to ask if this was a copy pasta.

The first few iOS updates they tried to charge for as well

I remember because it was laughably easy to just go grab the package file online and “flash” it manually.