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It's funny how quickly Lemmy turns on a dime between "Linux is easier than Windows" in threads about adopting Linux to "spend some time learning the terminal" when presented with a question that should be a single click (installing an app).
Before the hate train starts, I've been using Linux off and on for 30 years now. And I still struggle with making distros do things that shouldn't be that hard because they aren't hard in Windows.
In this case, to do the exact same as Windows, it literally is just a click.
To auto-update from a repository, it's a similar deal in Windows.
In this case, they're the same. Repos are preferred in GNU/Linux and installers in Windows, but both can do both.