Fighting FUD with Humor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 26, 2005 @10:52AM from the laughter-the-best-medicine dept.

Technophiliac writes to tell us MadPenguin in running a review of "Fighting FUD With Humor" Marcel Gagné's 2nd edition of "Moving to Linux". From the article: "The biggest obstacle is fear. Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use. Unfortunately, we are constantly presented with messages telling us that it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish. People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time."

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Re:But... by CyricZ · 2005-10-26 11:44 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's pointless to use APT with RPM files, because dpkg files work far better. APT tries to convert RPM files into dpkg files before installing them. And it quickly becomes a mess. It's perhaps even worse than the situation a decade or so ago.

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