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> all programs had a relatively consistent UI wizard that stepped you through the installation process

No where near as consistent as installing from a package manager.

> The fact that Linux relied on people to install stuff with the command line was a massive oversight. UIs are just way more intuitive than shell commands.

Every user orientated distro has come with a GUI package manager for at least a decade, probably two.




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