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Actually funny thing, I have a pretty minimal amount of windows experience, and basically 0 windows 11 experience (my use of windows computers was basically flash games back when I was a kid, and IT classes, which boiled down to launching office apps or codeblocks), and as the resident "computer person" of the family I usually end up having to fix various issues for them. Which ends up with me looking up very basic things for like 30 minutes that I can do in linux with 'muscle memory" in 30 seconds all the time :3
Which is all to say this is an apt comparison and a real issue
It's not an apt comparison because Windows doesn't use apt for packages ๐
Heck. A winget comparison then?
Or I suppose if we need something on both OSes we have like.. pip or something lol. I don't actually know that many package managers that happen to be available on windows