About Windows installer

[Jumpei Ogawa]

@Tatsu

I guess the "strange reason" expects the situation that you cannot use MS
Store because of some bugs or any other technical reasons.
You *do not* use MS Store because of your preference, and I don't think the
Okular website says it is a "strange reason".


@Web Team (Or Okular team...while I'm not sure if they read this list)

I'm not so good at English to judge if "strange reason" sounds offensive
for some people, but if it possibly causes such misunderstanding for other
people too, I think "for some strange reason" should be removed.

- If for some strange reason you can't use the Microsoft Store...
+ If you can't use the Microsoft Store...

I like MS Store and I don't agree with Tatsu's opinion, but various values
should be respected.

I will send a merge request to Okular website repo <
https://invent.kde.org/websites/okular-kde-org > when I have time unless
someone disagree with it.

Best regards,
Jumpei

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023, 05:51 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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