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[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

I think it's a mixed bag. Some of the friction is just because people are used to the stupid ways Windows does stuff.

But there's other stuff like needing to manually change some downloaded files to have permission to execute that it makes sense for casual users to find confusing.

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