Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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The problem with Redhat/Suse is you cant even compile without all those pesky "devel" packages. Otherwise fetching the source and doing a quick:
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./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
would be no problem. We could even make a bash script called:
./Setup.exe
If ppl so preferred. However, without devel libs its worse than dependency hell. Debian apt-get or gentoo emerge (hopefully with more bin packages soon) is the answer to our problems. Best answers so far, maybe some better will emerge. But really, i find all this "linux would be good, if we had auto bla.bla" is a bad argument. Linux is powerfull because it is not a dumbed down OS, and maybe it will never take over the windows market share, i couldent care less about marketshare. I got what i want, run the apps i need, and im happy. I guess linux will get 20% of the desktop market. Which is plenty enough, if you ask me