They’d find it rather difficult to just download programs from random websites and run them, considering the file will not be marked executable by default and they can’t just “download and double-click”.
Yea… Exactly… Thanks for providing evidence for me.
People going out and downloading random crap from shady websites clogging up their windows install with malware are not going to spend any amount of time troubleshooting why the random crap they downloaded doesn’t do anything when they double-click it. They likely won’t even know what to search for to find the solution to their “problem”.
Those people would do all the same on Linux
They’d find it rather difficult to just download programs from random websites and run them, considering the file will not be marked executable by default and they can’t just “download and double-click”.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45073771/appimage-on-github-releases-executable-permission#:~:text=If you would like to have all AppImages,downloaded from https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAppImage%2FAppImageKit%2Freleases or installed from your distribution.
Yea… Exactly… Thanks for providing evidence for me.
People going out and downloading random crap from shady websites clogging up their windows install with malware are not going to spend any amount of time troubleshooting why the random crap they downloaded doesn’t do anything when they double-click it. They likely won’t even know what to search for to find the solution to their “problem”.
They do that for Windows
People are used to app stores on their phone, I don’t think anybody is confused by e.g. gnome software