Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoAgain, when I install something from the AUR (which is not where most software comes from) it isn’t given a special term. It’s the exact same situation as “sideloading” but we just call it installing. Can you explain what the difference is between them?
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
LOL you just lumped every other repository into one and then excepted the AUR for…reasons?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Because the AUR is by users. The others aren’t.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand what that has to do with this conversation?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
My, you’re frustrating. If using an unofficial source for applications is called sideloading, why isn’t that term used for desktop computing? The term only exists for phones. The AUR is an unofficial user-run source and is equivalent to a source other than the play/apple store. If that term was actually useful or needed we call installing applications from the AUR sideloading, but we don’t. Clearly the term has no real utility besides making it sound like something you shouldn’t do.