What's outright bullshit so kinda obviated your argument. Sure, if downloading onto a thumb drive and rebooting a few times is hard becase you expect your OS to be preloaded then maybe but that wasn't even your point.

Mint has a web browser, Office Software, Graphic Software, Music Players etc all loaded. Open up the Application Installer, a GUI and type in the obvious bar at the top for what you want, download and good to go.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Sure, if downloading onto a thumb drive and rebooting a few times is hard becase you expect your OS to be preloaded then maybe but that wasn't even your point.

You're right. It wasn't. Not sure why you brought that up.

Open up the Application Installer, a GUI and type in the obvious bar at the top for what you want, download and good to go.

You're intentionally misrepresenting the situation. That's great if the software you're looking for is available in the "application installer". That is very often not the case. If it's available at all, it's often a .deb or .rpm or appimage, or you're expected to compile it yourself from scratch.

AppImages won't even run without some fuckery. And when you do that, they still have no icon and can't be pinned in your app tray. Sure, you can install Gear Lever to greatly simplify this process if you know about it but it's not typically not installed by default, which makes this process completely unintuitive.

And if they only make a .deb available, and you're running Fedora, well fuck you.

These are all complications that simply don't exist on Windows or Mac.