this is all so crazy... and based upon perspectives that are so different.
You have one world where pretty much everything and everyone can play - Windows!
You have another world where there are barriers - anything using a package manager, or subject to Apple's interpretation of things.
Take your average Joe... ask him to put some software on a *nix that is not in the package manager and watch the pain begin.
Take the same average Joe and hand him a Windows box, or ask him what it is like to install software, IF Windows is all he has ever used. His attitude will be that it is no big deal, because in most cases, it is not. He drops in a CD, or clicks a download and off he goes.
So take AV software and Windows. Bad history pre-Vista and pre-Microsoft Security Essentials. Today it just is no big deal.
Then take someone like Mr. Humpty and here we have the best of both worlds. The wide open world of Windows, paired with the wisdom to run as a standard user. NOTHING can be installed that is not approved. So why run AV? Really? Why? How is it any different than the closed world of the package manager? How? It isn't and he's right. Dead on right. As he runs (as I do) how is software going to install? It can't install itself.
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