Obsidian installer on windows often needs to be updated with some versions, but it never shows in the updates page if it needs to be updated.
When updating Installer Versions, there is often apprehension amongst newer users if their data might get lost or corrupted, or not get detected.
Obsidian is one of the cleanest and lightest apps on the market, that very few people know about, and honestly can be a little intimidating at first.
Proposed solution
List Obsidian On the Windows Store. As great as Obsidian is, this will give obsidian more legitimacy to laymen users (especially given the state of windows appstore, microsoft might even feature the app), and make it less intimidating for newer users to install, and update obsidian.
Not a windows developer, so i don’t know what challenges or long term benefits does this entail, would love to start a discussion
Also this would allow Windows Home S users to download Obsidian on their operating system, since it only allows applications obtained on the Windows Store.
I’m pretty sure this would be really easy to do as well. The Microsoft Store would just be distributing the .exe installer. No need to repackage the app in another format or anything.
My daughter has a windows machne with S mode enabled so I would very much like to see a Windows Store version added. She is just starting high school and I would like for her to use Obsidian but I am not sure if I want to disable S mode yet.
A PSA note from the developers that accompanied the new release today:
On Windows, we’ve obtained a new signing certificate, which takes time to build trust with Microsoft. If you encounter a SmartScreen warning, you may have to choose “More info”, then “Run anyway” until enough people click that for Microsoft to trust our new signing certificate.
