Debian: We do have our "store" but we have the doors guarded ;-)

Posted Jan 4, 2011 22:52 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
In reply to: Debian: We do have our "store" but we have the doors guarded ;-) by drag
Parent article: Free Software: the road to a Universal bundle, a powerful app store, and world domination (Free Software Magazine)

"Some examples are:

* Google Chrome
* Blender 2.5 beta
* PS3 media server
* Subsonic

All that is great software. I download the binaries and they "just work"."

You're clearly someone that likes to play around with software. Most of us don't. Most of us just want to tell our OS what software we want installed and trust it'll be there and be installed sanely.

I personally don't want to have to trawl around the web finding and installing the stuff I need and installing it in a way that will likely install its files in weird and wonderful places according to how the author thinks things should be done. I would rather spend that time being productive.

I'll stick with debian thanks. I consider the modern package-managed distro to be a pre-evolution of the app store.