Comment by bigdubs
11 years ago
Recent versions of windows come with whatever version of .net was stable at the time, in order to upgrade you have to download from msdn. This vs. `sudo apt-get install upgrade` etc.
The announcement of the windows package management features should help this though.
New versions often come via windows update (which you _could_ consider easier than manually installing it -> apt).
Plus, this is a thread about the core clr and as I said: That won't be required/necessary in a system wide installation anymore. So you now install RandomApp and .Net is just part of it - just like you can apt-get install random-app.
We're comparing now the package management, not the ease of installation of .Net. There is no installation of .Net anymore (or - see above: It sooner or later lands via windows update).
I'm a Linux guy, but that's [1] just a weird case to make here, both in general and specifically in this context.
1: Easier .Net installation on Linux than on Windows