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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This is hell indeed. Just a little story with mandrake 10. I wanted to compile winecvs and each time I tried to compile, I had an error message saying I needed a given library. So, using urpmi, I installed the missing library. Finally, all required libs were installed and still, could not compile (some said it was a bug...) Anyway, after, I wanted to remove those libs from my system (didn't need thems afterall). I clicked on a library (one I just installed) and boom a dependency check showed a list of 15-20 packages which requries this packaged to run like XFree. Remember the system worked fine before this library was installed. Install : ok, Uninstall : no can do. Well, this is what I call dependency hell.
Well, I agree with the athor about a ERPM package and a less bloated out of the box system.
I agree with some people about a simple linux. Less choice. 1 desktop, 1 browser, 1 media player..
Another thing, why everything (buttons, fonts) are so big under linux and why no-aa fonts looks like crap (unless you reompile Freetype with the bytecode stuff. ? One thing I really like about windows is small buttons and clear non-aa fonts. It is hard to setup linux like this (for personal usage...)
Thanks