How is it inconvenient? Searching “foo” in the web browser and clicking the download link is faster than opening the terminal, and typing “apt install foo”. You also don’t need to know the package name, and don’t need to know if it’s in your repos in the first place. If it’s not then you just wasted time anyway and have to search the web anyway.
Let’s go with an example, let’s say I want to install Sublime Text.
On Windows: I search “sublime text”, click first result, click download, click the installer, done.
On Linux: I consider using the package manager. Hopefully I don’t even try because it wouldn’t work. I search “sublime text”, click first result, click download. I get a list of commands to add a GPG key, add a repo, then two more commands to update and install. I open a terminal and copy paste the 4 commands.
Windows way seems more convenient and faster.
How is it inconvenient? Searching “foo” in the web browser and clicking the download link is faster than opening the terminal, and typing “apt install foo”. You also don’t need to know the package name, and don’t need to know if it’s in your repos in the first place. If it’s not then you just wasted time anyway and have to search the web anyway.
Let’s go with an example, let’s say I want to install Sublime Text. On Windows: I search “sublime text”, click first result, click download, click the installer, done. On Linux: I consider using the package manager. Hopefully I don’t even try because it wouldn’t work. I search “sublime text”, click first result, click download. I get a list of commands to add a GPG key, add a repo, then two more commands to update and install. I open a terminal and copy paste the 4 commands. Windows way seems more convenient and faster.