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> Download Focalboard from the Microsoft App Store.

I am life-long Windows user and I am yet to meet someone who uses Microsoft App Store. A standalone regular installer is an absolute must.

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Krita earned an estimated $4850 from Microsoft App Store vs $2000 in donations and finally allowed a full time maintainer, per this 2018 article https://krita.org/en/item/krita-in-the-windows-store-an-upda...

I became a Windows user recently and I install everything I can from the Microsoft Store, so I don't have to individually and manually get updates for all the apps I installed.

Just FYI, there are several CLI tools that more closely resemble a Linux package manager that you can use. Scoop and chocolatey come to mind (I'm a scoop user myself). I think NuGet is supposed to be a CLI software repo tool by Microsoft, but I'm only tangentially aware of it so I might have that wrong.

I mostly dislike the Microsoft Store because it requires an account, even for free downloads. I'm a little loathe to hand Microsoft control over a higher layer of my stack, for fear that they do some kind of "you can't control when you patch" thing like they did with Windows. I've also got a little bit of leftover disdain because it used to basically only have Metro apps, which were awful. That's not a good reason, but I won't lie and say it doesn't exist.

Focalboard team here,

Hi @eps, I've opened a ticket on this: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/99

Would you be open to giving a "Thumbs Up" and/or a comment sharing more about the benefits?

Community feedback is super important, and we would love to hear more from you and others

I use it, and I've bought apps worth ~$200 on it.

I download all KDE apps (Kate, Kile, Okular, Krita, etc) from the store, if possible. The one big issue I discovered with that is that store apps can’t be set as default to open a file for a file format that the app didn’t specify itself (e.g., you can’t open an .NFO per default with Kate, as Kate doesn’t register itself as file handler for .NFO files)

Its not very popular yet, but its 100% the future. I use it whenever an app is available on the store - easy, consistent auto updates is much better than each app nagging you to update independently. Better for devs as well because it gives you much more confidence that new versions will be adopted quickly.

I prefer it actually.. main reason is streamlined app auto updates

Most importantly, while I have admin privileges and can install some software, my corporate machine has the windows store disabled.

Hi! I've used it for a few things, such as purchasing Microsoft Flight Simulator, and various WSL distros.

I've used it to get Minecraft.

Nonsense, package managers enable trivial and fine grained update policies

They didn't say anything about the quality of the service, they mentioned the low popularity.

You might want to add a qualifier to 'package managers', like 'good package managers'... which the Windows Store is not. It barely fits the bill as a package manager.

Scoop is the way to go

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