IMHO, installing software isn't so bad (most of the time - there's always gonna be a few programs with crappy make files that refuse to compile)
My big problem is uninstalling... since *nix scatters program files all over subdirectories of/usr/local (and/or other places) it's well-nigh impossible to effectively remove things. I really hate that. Granted, some programs give you a "make uninstall" but there are plenty that don't.
I agree with you. Messiah sucked royally, but Children was pretty cool... at least for what it was. God Emperor ruled (despite some problems), but Heretics and Chapterhouse wandered a bit. I actually saw Chapterhouse going in interesting directions, towards the end... very interesting stuff going on with that web thingy, and the strange, godlike face dancers. And of course, the possibility that Leto II isn't as unreachable in his "endless dream" as we'd been led to believe.
I can't really comment on the prequels (I haven't read them), but I'll admit to being skeptical. It would certainly be interesting to see these notes on a final book after Chapterhouse, though. I really felt like the series got cut short. Maybe making a book out of it isn't such a great idea, but they could publish it as a sort of "Lost Tales of Dune" or something. Just my 2 cents.
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IMHO, installing software isn't so bad (most of the time - there's always gonna be a few programs with crappy make files that refuse to compile) My big problem is uninstalling... since *nix scatters program files all over subdirectories of /usr/local (and/or other places) it's well-nigh impossible to effectively remove things. I really hate that. Granted, some programs give you a "make uninstall" but there are plenty that don't.
I agree with you. Messiah sucked royally, but Children was pretty cool... at least for what it was. God Emperor ruled (despite some problems), but Heretics and Chapterhouse wandered a bit. I actually saw Chapterhouse going in interesting directions, towards the end... very interesting stuff going on with that web thingy, and the strange, godlike face dancers. And of course, the possibility that Leto II isn't as unreachable in his "endless dream" as we'd been led to believe. I can't really comment on the prequels (I haven't read them), but I'll admit to being skeptical. It would certainly be interesting to see these notes on a final book after Chapterhouse, though. I really felt like the series got cut short. Maybe making a book out of it isn't such a great idea, but they could publish it as a sort of "Lost Tales of Dune" or something. Just my 2 cents.