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One of the oddest things about macOS is the installation dance. Dealing with disk images, dragging and dropping—it’s the main way of installing software from outside the Mac App Store, and it’s annoying. You download a DMG file, open it to mount a virtual disk, and drag the application from there to your Applications folder.