A idiot admire complexity.A genius admire simplicity.
it's simply copying the app bundle into Applications, avoiding the complexity of copy/paste to and from the pasteboard
>yay -Sez
>>107675268Macs only make sense if you've never used a computer before in your life
>>107675268now discuss the autoupdate story
>>107675268He's moving a shortcut called "Product Hunt" to a folder called "Applications?"Wow.
>>107675268An bell end can't write the English too good.
>>107675459>tip of penus is dumb innit
>>107675419i exclusively use macs, work as a swe, and made 350k usd last year. through legal tax loopholes ive saved and invested 230k of that while travelling the world, 10+ countriesmad?
>>107675401>brew install
>>107675556Only funny post in this thread.
>>107675268>ESL jeet speakClearly, you're among the former
>>107675268That's right! which is why I just open KDE Discover and click install, not need to go to the web and look some faggy dev website and download some shady installer.
>>107675268What exactly is this graphic supposed to convey? You take the icon copy it to anothe folder? Should I close the app? Why do I have to do that? It just opened right now. Can't we just have an "install/cancel" dialog?
>>107675268you have to manually unmount the dmg file afterwards, it's shit
>>107675767>system created by and for people with heavy brain damage>installer extension is dmgyeah, that tracks
>>107675487and then you woke up
>>107675487>travelling the worldcope
>>107675758>this graphicIt's just a Finder window made to look like an installer.You're literally just copying a file from the disc image into the applications foler. All the application is inside that .app file. Exactly like an AppImage. There's nothing to stop you opening another Finder window and dragging the .app file anywhere else too.>>107675757App StoreI really do wonder how much of these threads are Winjeets baiting on minor differences between Linux and Mac to stop us making fun of the Windows Registry.
>>107675955You, I never realised until you made the comparison, but yes, I fucking hate linux for the exact same reasons that I cinsider mac unusable garbage. (I've been using linux for about seven years now and don't plan on changing)
>>107675268If people decided that all AppImages go into /app and someone made an AppImage installer program, set up an association to open an AppImage as that program. Made it so that on launch it would show the same thing: AppImage icon, arrow, a directory with drag and drop interaction. That interaction would move the AppImage to /app/AppImage. That same app would also be a launcher that would look at a path and if launched from /app/ path it would recognize it's not installation, and would just launch the AppImage. This is basically the same thing.Installation of any application ever was just glorified copy. In the days of DOS it was more obvious, but nothing has changed. The only thing install shields and similar wizard programs ever done was just a copy. With time they also started doing some post-install actions like setting up some registry settings and such. It's because Windows moved on from ini files to global registry to make it harder to "copy applications".On the Linux site most configuration is text files so installation is mostly always just copying files into specific places. Some perverts though tried to port the registry to Linux, but fortunately most people are not retarded and don't do that for their applications.
>>107675268why does it even need that "drag and drop" step? wouldn't it be simpler if it just auto-populated the Applications directory when you run the installer?
>>107675955why drag thowhy not click onceit's not like I'm gonna install it somewhere else
>>107675268It is even simpler on windows, if you consider uninstalling.
>>107676090>>107676118If Apple did that, you'd complain about the option to choose being taken away. Even if the option isn't obvious with windows like these, it's still there.Besides, .pkg files and the app store exist for this purpose. The dmg/app format (itself a carry over from NextStep) is just an older way that people still prefer. I like how some dmg images still have folders with bonus stuff on them, like an old install cd. DaVinci comes with a 4000 page pdf manual.>>107676134>MacOSDelete .app file>LinuxDelete either .appimage file or the application directory>WindowsRun the built in uninstaller program and hope it removes everything. Manually removing any application requires a doctorate in computer science
>>107675268but it isn't simple. an awful lot has to happen to make that work.
>>107675268>A idiot admireGood morning, sar.
>>107675268you can have both simplicity and customizability i.e being able to choose absolutely everything about your install
>>107675268Terry davis
