> apparently to make installing Python easier for novices?
That seems to be the goal. But from what I've seen on forums and Discord, nothing really works for that. People are becoming less and less computer literate, including people who want to try programming. I've seen multiple instances of people not understanding the idea of running an installer once and then running the thing it installed after that. Any number of Windows users who have never seen cmd.exe (or Powershell or any other alternative) before.
And the install manager makes things worse because the `py` name conflicts with the old launcher, and of course nobody (at least, among the people actually wrestling with this stuff) actually reads pages like the one in OP. Everyone tries to learn how to do stuff from third-party sources, and old sources explaining former ways to do things never go away or get updated.
... You know, I think I finally understand why people care about `uv` being able to install Python. (I mean, I'm on Linux so I'm insulated from this anyway, but still.)
That seems to be the goal. But from what I've seen on forums and Discord, nothing really works for that. People are becoming less and less computer literate, including people who want to try programming. I've seen multiple instances of people not understanding the idea of running an installer once and then running the thing it installed after that. Any number of Windows users who have never seen cmd.exe (or Powershell or any other alternative) before.
And the install manager makes things worse because the `py` name conflicts with the old launcher, and of course nobody (at least, among the people actually wrestling with this stuff) actually reads pages like the one in OP. Everyone tries to learn how to do stuff from third-party sources, and old sources explaining former ways to do things never go away or get updated.
... You know, I think I finally understand why people care about `uv` being able to install Python. (I mean, I'm on Linux so I'm insulated from this anyway, but still.)