> For windows or mac, 1 or 2 files each cover all systems from the last 10 years or more.
Utter nonsense. What about code signing? A 10 year old installer won't be signed, and Windows/mac will scream at you about malware and you might have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it actually installed.
> You compare hunting for pirated software to installing open source software
Pirated? How do you download MS Office? Adobe Acrobat? VLC? For all of those, on Windows and on Mac, you have to search the net for an installer. And pray that your vision is good enough to detect phishing/scam websites. (And sometimes it isn't obvious, VLC is downloaded from videolan.org).
It's really not that hard. On Windows you just tell SmartScreen to install anyway. On macOS once you've changed the system setting to allow unsigned executables, you right click and choose open and then tell it to run anyway. In both cases it won't bother you about it again for that executable.
Utter nonsense. What about code signing? A 10 year old installer won't be signed, and Windows/mac will scream at you about malware and you might have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it actually installed.
> You compare hunting for pirated software to installing open source software
Pirated? How do you download MS Office? Adobe Acrobat? VLC? For all of those, on Windows and on Mac, you have to search the net for an installer. And pray that your vision is good enough to detect phishing/scam websites. (And sometimes it isn't obvious, VLC is downloaded from videolan.org).