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Is this actually how it still works on windows? Like it has not evolved since the 90s?
Look, they're too busy changing the UI completely every two years to change things like functionality.
They just copy Plasma anyway.
package managers technically exist, including Microsoft's own winget, and if you're on windows they're a decent choice, though they do come with a multitude of issues
there's even a decent ish package manager GUI called unigetui
Plus 1 for uni get. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn good.
~~how would it change, netbooting still requires significant infrastructure that only nerds and business have and almost no phones have support for USB mass storage device emulation (technically not emulation) so it still needs a USB drive or DVD.~~
edit: misread the previous comment, didn't see program