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What I enjoy the most on my Linux desktop is how it handles installing/upgrading software. It's just easy, and it works. When I'm on Windows I can't stand the google-download-execute-untick boxes-next-next cycles. This post is more about UI features though.

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Agreed. pacman -Syu is a godsend. Of course that's just the face of a great package manager and packaging. In many ways on Arch you could make the argument that it just works.

It does not get any better than pacman for sure, but I'm pretty happy with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade :)

The best package manager on Linux I've ever used is Sorcery, although pacman is a close second.

I'm still partial to the *BSD way of ports, however.

Source-based distributions have their advantages but for me the biggest disadvantage is the wasting of my time.

You should try out "chocolatey" on windows. It enough people adopt it, more packages will get on to it.

Or Scoop at http://scoop.sh (I made it).

Looks interesting! Will look into it more closely.

It looks good. But to me, until Microsoft does something about it, it's not really gonna take off. I thought Microsoft Installer would be it, but obviously it's not :/

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