Re: yet another reason not to buy vista...
- From: Davorin Vlahovic <nrubA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:13:51 +0000 (UTC)
On 2007-09-30, Noozer <dont.spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
True, only if one can choose one of the 300+ different distros,
Why? Pick one from a list of top five.
So what are the top five THIS week?
Let's see - Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSe, Mandriva, Gentoo. Pretty much the
same lineup for the past few years.
BTW, are you saying having choice
is bad? If so, go to Cuba or North Corea. I guess people there are content
with not having to make any choices. Oh, wait... people frown upon
one-mindedness.
Yet, here you are, bashing everything that isn't Linux. You sound pretty one
minded to me.
You sir are an idiot. My answer above is connected to "i'm scared of all
this choice!" sentiment. Has nothing to do with Linux.
You sound pretty moronic to me.
update or change the kernel (which changes with the whim of LT).
Why? Ubuntu, ie., does this for you. You don't even know when it does
that - it just requests a restart.
Uhm... Invisible updates are evil. Isn't this one of the big things folks
hate about Windows? Now you're using it as a plus in Linux?
Which invisible updates? An icon blinks, says there are updates (and
shows you the list), you enter your password and it works in the
background (you can see exactly what it's doing - but you don't need to
know if you don't want to.
Package
managers? What the hell is that.
As in criminal offenses, being uninformed is not an excuse. If you (or
anyone else) started using computers with linux (and not windows, DOS,
OS/2, CP/M, etc) they'd have known and would be flabbergasted by using a
computer without one.
Why do I need a package manager in the first place? I never needed one in
DOS, or Windows, or OS/2. Programs installed where I expected them to go and
I had no problems removing them. No need to start and program just to use
another program.
Bunch of lies. You know, there are other people that know how windows
works - install routines that cover the whole fs with rougue files, who
know what registry entries etc, etc, etc.
Tell me, how can you tell which file belongs to which program? What is
file's hash (if it had been changed sometime after installation it's
probably a malware)? Can you remove _everything_ the program spat on windows?
Of course you can't. You don't have _any_ bookkeeping on files on you
windows computer. It's nonexistant.
_That's_ why you use a packet system.
Oh, and btw, you know where each file went after the install on Linux.
If it's a usual binary, it's in /usr/bin and /usr/share, if it's a
superuser thing it went into /usr/sbin etc.
There are rules for what goes into which directory. Look it up.
BTW, here we see a typical "i don't want to read" mentality - what
package manager is and what it does is (rather well) explained in
the documentation.
And every computer user knows that their package manager is named zypper, or
aptitude, or YaST... etc. Try typing "man install" or "man wordprocessing".
As I said, _read_ the docs for your distro. We're not supporting lazy
people, are we? :)
Reading man pages for you mister, just $5/h. :')
Why should you even touch those already set up? What, 20k+ programs
(Ubuntu, Debian...) are not enough for you?
Weren't you just spouting off against single mindedness? Why do I need to be
limited to JUST what Debian or SuSE tell me I can have. Windows doesn't tell
me I can only download stuff from Microsoft.
Just? I think you should check how big the damn thing is. :)
Of course, there are some times when you need something that isn't in
the official repository - but then you'll have _clear_ instructions how
to set everything up. Ubuntu documentations covers it very well.
--
Davorin Vlahović. Smetam ljudima od 1982.
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