Linked by Kevin Russo on Thu 31st Mar 2005 18:40 UTC
I read a lot of reviews comparing GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows, and inevitably the topic of installing software comes up. Most reviews indicate that installing software in Windows is much easier than that of the desktop GNU/Linux world. I decided to do my own comparison based on my desktop usage to see the difference. The following are my results. Those of you that come from the Windows world may be a tad bit surprised at the ease in which software can be installed.
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"The problem with apt emerge urpmi ect is your at the mercy of the distro. lets say a new version of abiword is released that fixes some major problem so you open a term type apt-get install abiword only to see its not updated in the repository yet, so you wait a few days and it still isn't updated. Weeks and months may pass before the repository is updated then what do you do, download the source compile and hope you dint just hose your system."
That is sometimes a problem indeed.
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"Once upon a time a few years ago I tryed to install frozen bubble (I think that what it was) on my freshly installed libranet system without thinking I hit Y to uninstalling every single gnome app on my system including gdm and gnome itself just to install a game. Admittedly that was my own fault but why on earth should that even happen"
Once upon a time I put a gun against my head, and without thinking, I pulled the trigger. Admittedly, that was my own fault, but it should not happen ?
Golden rule:
Think before you do!