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So I appreciate that this is handy for some people, but to me it's like avocado ice-cream. A bad idea that tastes like crap.
This was a program most of congress didn't even know about, but execs at MS knew. They were knowingly violating your right to privacy and knew the government was doing it. Microsoft are bad guys. I won't even go into what all they did in the 90's under Bill Gates (https://archive.fo/CJ4PV).
Not only that, but Windows is a crap OS. Anytime anyone defends Windows it always comes down to program compatibility and not OS quality. Linux for me is more stable, performant, doesn't slow down after a few months of use, has better choice in file system, has actual package management, doesn't force me to reboot for updates, doesn't take 8 hours to install .NET framework after rebooting preventing me from doing work, has great container technology, the list could just go on.
Windows isn't a good OS, it just has games and office and a few "professional" programs that most "hackers" don't ever touch. It's filesystem is crap, it's update policy is crap and should have been fixed millennia ago, svchost is always a problem, font rendering is still worse then any other OS, ads in the os, spyware in the OS, closed source so you can't even really hack on it, etc. But it's got games so that makes it the best OS for software development? Any one who thinks this has never given Linux a serious shot. After programing and setting up development environments with proper package management and having a sane command line, using Windows for development, especially in multiple languages is a huge chore that usually involves lots of breakage over time. On Linux things feel much more cohesive.
Even Microsoft agrees that Linux is better for developers, seeing as they implemented a Linux sub-system right into their OS. They've admitted defeat. They aren't even going to try to fix windows. Microsoft doesn't even care about Windows. People on HN care more about Windows than MS does.
WSL is cool, but frankly the built in hypervisor is better.
Can you elaborate on what is it that is bad about WSL being on Windows? How does it make things bad for anybody? It's called choice.
There's certainly a line of argument that says you can have all the linux goodness without all of that.
So that's why to me it's like Avocado Ice Cream: a choice many people are free to make and enjoy....like the maniacs they are.
If you don't want to be uncomfortable then simply don't try to pay for something with your Apple account.
If that bothers you, you can always just download the app from the dev's website and not bother with the store completely.
What probably happened is that you have an existing expired CC on your account, so just remove it and continue on...
> you can always just download the app from the dev's website and not bother with the store completely
This makes a number of assumptions - namely that the developer has made the app available via their website (which is not common if they use in-app purchases).
I do not like that.