Black Friday is the day after the American Thanksgiving and the begining of Christmas shopping. Most stores have huge discounts, vendors have cool displays, and new products are released. All of that causes lots of people to go to the stores en mass, making it difficult to get to anywhere or do anything other than stay home or shop.
The reason it takes so much longer on linux is that there is just that more of a choice, and the repositories contain a lot more than just what a novice user might want or need. For those novice users, Ubuntu (as that was the distro you mentioned) has the Ubuntu software catalogue that shortens the list by a ton, and if you only show the supported apps, you get apps that are near polished. The websites for those apps are almost always as (if not more) professional looking than most stable shareware apps' sites. Try two or three of those, you'll have as much luck finding something to fit your tastes as you would with trying two or three well known Windows apps.
However if you really wanted to go find apps the long way you do in Windows you can as well. As Windows has download.com, you can check out Linspire's CNR warehouse or many many other sites that rate and review *nix apps for you. However on a side note I do agree that providing screenshots would be a great thing for Synaptic and the Ubuntu software catalog because it would save a couple steps.
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Black Friday is the day after the American Thanksgiving and the begining of Christmas shopping. Most stores have huge discounts, vendors have cool displays, and new products are released. All of that causes lots of people to go to the stores en mass, making it difficult to get to anywhere or do anything other than stay home or shop.
The reason it takes so much longer on linux is that there is just that more of a choice, and the repositories contain a lot more than just what a novice user might want or need. For those novice users, Ubuntu (as that was the distro you mentioned) has the Ubuntu software catalogue that shortens the list by a ton, and if you only show the supported apps, you get apps that are near polished. The websites for those apps are almost always as (if not more) professional looking than most stable shareware apps' sites. Try two or three of those, you'll have as much luck finding something to fit your tastes as you would with trying two or three well known Windows apps.
However if you really wanted to go find apps the long way you do in Windows you can as well. As Windows has download.com, you can check out Linspire's CNR warehouse or many many other sites that rate and review *nix apps for you. However on a side note I do agree that providing screenshots would be a great thing for Synaptic and the Ubuntu software catalog because it would save a couple steps.