"Software Centre"

[Derek_]

[member=8996]Derek_[/member]  wrote: But people are used to mobile phones with a billion apps, and WinMac with a billion apps so i don't know.

You're right. You don't know. You're comparing apples and oranges. Apps as you refer to them here are not system files. Most of those billions are java and web language abstractions. Applications in synaptic and in so-called software centers include binaries and binary dependencies that integrate into your system.

Also I-phones, Android phones, Apple Macs, and Windows 10 are all built on much older system kernels and binaries than Ubuntu. Linux software uses abstraction layers of java in applications like LibreOffice but most of those billions of apps you refer to are a patchwork quilt of useless code (often 32bit) too OLD to run efficiently and securely on newer Linux systems. When it comes to "apps" as you refer to them "new" in the Windows/Mac/Android world is very often not new.  Maybe somebody built it just yesterday, and wow it still works on Windows 10, but it's code base is too old for Ubuntu.

Also anyone who thinks synaptic package manager is too complex shouldn't go near the CLI of a modern Linux system.

Also the main problem with "software centers" the way you mean them is that they are resource hogs in GUI mode. I used to hate KDE's, and I wish it was never added into Ubuntu. A lot of applications in them are not included in the initial install of whatever base system they're on because they a often LESS efficient alternatives. The same can be said of Debian's synaptic as well, but Debian users think that way normally: understand that those 50.000 applications are not there because they're new; and most of what's new in already in the OS.

TC

Relevance?

Also great, you'd like to exclude 95% of the public because they don't want to get techy. Does THAT meet the mission?

As for resource hogs, surely that's mostly just how its built. And even if it is, its not open all the time - it is opened to install software then closed.