Not everything is in the distribution, we need more. Period.

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For window I get a lot of apps not from Microsoft but from oldergeeks.com - they do a great job of keeping it current and malware free.

Am 2. November 2023 12:48:22 MEZ schrieb "Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@opensuse.org>:

On 2023-11-02 09:57, Richard Brown wrote:

On 2023-11-02 09:32, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

*Users* do not even know that OBS exists, what it is for or how to
interpret information there. Users get redirected from
software.opensuse.org (most common case) to 1-click install or
sometimes just get a direct link to download.opensuse.org. Not much
can be done about the latter, but the former boils down to the usual
complaints about s.o.o being unsuitable as the end user-facing tool.

Although even in the latter case zypper could support a mechanism to
display a warning when adding a repository (as part of repository
metadata) and such warnings could be generated automatically by OBS.

I talked about how software.opensuse.org and 1-click installs should either be dramatically reformed or removed over SEVEN years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3whk4E_IA

My view has only grown stronger over time. Users should not be using random OBS projects, just as Windows users shouldn't use random .exes from the internet.

Software we want our users to use should be in our distributions. Period.

If openSUSE does what you suggests, it is death of it.

Not everything is in the distribution, we need more. Period.

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