About Windows installer

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Sep 4 21:51:15 BST 2023


El dijous, 31 d’agost de 2023, a les 16:08:33 (CEST), Tatsu Takamaro va 
escriure:
> Hi, dear developers of Okular. I've just read on your download page
> this: "If for some strange reason you can't use the Microsoft Store you
> can try the stable version from release nightly build.".
> 
> Well, if you think that rejecting MS Store is strange then you're wrong.
> 
> The fact is when you install programs from Store, you can't see the
> installation folder normally. The installation process hides all useful
> information from a user. You can't even find the starting exe-file and
> make a label (link) on it, you cant' place it where you want. You can't
> modify some ini-files because you just don't know where they are. Store
> behaves like a tiran, in Apple logic. Thats why many people dislike MS
> Store and try not to use it ever if possible.
> 
> Thus, apparently, when we don't want to use MS Store, it is NOT strange.

Personal answer, this is *not* a KDE answer:

If you care about your Freedom, don't use Windows. If you do use Windows, you 
may as well use the MS Store, you're not really giving that much away.

Cheers,
  Albert





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