please prove that you are human
the swift programming language is my fault to some degree. mostly here to see dogs, shitpost, fix old computers, and/or talk about math and weird computer programming things. for effortposts check the #longpost pinned tag. asks are open.
please prove that you are human
to maybe take a joke too seriously, how is this different than downloading a deb and installing with `dpkg?
mmmm the thing that bothers me about the macOS flow is that it's not just "click install to install this"; having to drag it to the applications folder is such a weird skeuomorphism(?)
like, even on debian i can double click the .deb file if i want to install it graphically, iirc
This is kind of an interesting cultural thing actually. macOS supports installers like that just fine (.pkg files), but users traditionally have viewed them with mild distrust because it's less clear what they're installing where. This has mostly relegated their use to things that actually DO need to install odds and ends in weird places, which in turn validates and reinforces the user distrust.