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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You sure must hate Windows then, for there are a lot more apps there than in Linuxland !
Anyway, although I agree apps installation is a mess in Linux, I've never had to suffer too much cause I used mandrake's urpmi before and debian's synaptic now.
The thing is that most open source developpers have little incitation to package things for a wide audience, since they DON'T SEEK a wide audience. Those who do, offer statically linked packages (Opera comes to mind).
The situation is down to distros. They have to agree a common package format with a common versionning, that allows packages to be distributed with or without dependencies to a maximum of subscribing distros. That would save them a lot of time and effort.
It is ironic that the main public proponents of open source (the distros) can't do what the mantra says : stick to open standards. They get all worked up about open and completely obliterate the "standard" bit.