This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 year ago

    it was somewhat controversial, but the mint people solved for this by including their own curated software manager (re:store) where you can search for (and install/uninstall) packages known to already work well with the distro.

    most of my support calls are ‘wheres that thing i can install apps with?’

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That came from Debian long before Mint even existed. The lineage goes Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint, and the package manager was part of Debian since the 1990s (although you had to use it through the command-line back then.)