They're copying the Microsoft business model in the hopes it will work for them too
-wes On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everybody. I now have synaptic, and Gnome-software is hidden. On my > desktop running 14.04 the equivalent of Gnome-software uses the same icon > as Gnome-software, but it works. Why is it that Ubuntu seems to have the > philosophy "If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is."? > > A little bit of re-familiarizing myself with Synaptic is all it will take > for me to be comfortable with it. > > -Denis > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 2:54 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:28:31 -0700 > > Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > >In ubuntu 16.04 the package manager GUI is Gnome-Software. (You would > > >not know that just by looking at the name provided by hovering over > > >the icon nor by launching it and looking for a help/about menu-none > > >exists.) > > > > Another vote for Synaptic. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
