Downloading via web browser was the original means (besides ftp) of getting anything. Hell tarball distribution was how everyone used to move bits around.
Package maintainers are not Linux. Never will be, never have been. Linux may start with a distro or live CD, but from there it's you arranging things in a way that best works for you.
Or are you going to try to sell me on the fact that Linux From Scratch is basically pushing you to wget source tarballs, is peak windowsism?
If anything, distribution package managers are more of a windowsism than anything else. About the most I tend to allow myself is to use the apt-ified form of software install after I've torn apart an sbopkg build from source. Even on windows I've gotten to the point I've started dumping symbol tables from binaries, for all the cold comfort and reminder that the world is a capitalist hellhole that offers nothing but clients of servers looking to charge you rent anymore.
How do you ever expect to learn how your computer works and how to drive it if you don't read?
I'm surprised by some of the answers I'm getting -- and I'm both a Linux fan and an almost exclusive user for the past 20 years. Yet I don't delude myself about the ton of crap I download in order to get things to be the way I want. Sometimes it's Steam, sometimes it's GOG, sometimes it's the official repo, sometimes it's a PPA, sometimes it's just random stuff on the web.
And yes -- downloading stuff from the web is how it's supposed to be used. Have people really changed so much that this is now frowned upon?
In any case, I still think we're "safe" because malware authors don't think it's worth their time to target Linux.
Excuse me, what?
Downloading via web browser was the original means (besides ftp) of getting anything. Hell tarball distribution was how everyone used to move bits around.
Package maintainers are not Linux. Never will be, never have been. Linux may start with a distro or live CD, but from there it's you arranging things in a way that best works for you.
Or are you going to try to sell me on the fact that Linux From Scratch is basically pushing you to wget source tarballs, is peak windowsism?
If anything, distribution package managers are more of a windowsism than anything else. About the most I tend to allow myself is to use the apt-ified form of software install after I've torn apart an sbopkg build from source. Even on windows I've gotten to the point I've started dumping symbol tables from binaries, for all the cold comfort and reminder that the world is a capitalist hellhole that offers nothing but clients of servers looking to charge you rent anymore.
How do you ever expect to learn how your computer works and how to drive it if you don't read?