Re: [Trisquel-users] What are the things that Trisquel can do but Windows 7 can't?

[onpon4]

Windows doesn't have a package management system. Only system-level updates  
are delivered by Microsoft themselves. Other than that, it only has a  
standard for decentralized production of installers; it's up to software  
developers to make these installers, figure out how to include dependencies,  
provide an update mechanism, etc. Many developers don't even bother with  
this, and just package a binary in an archive and tell Windows users,  
"extract and run".

The only reason it arguably works better than the centralized package system  
Trisquel uses is because Windows is very popular, so much so that software  
developers feel obligated to provide something easy for Windows users, and  
sharing dependencies that aren't in every base system is so impractical that  
each program just comes with its own copy of every dependency.