Comments on: Software installation in Linux is difficult

By: Thomas Loveland

Thomas Loveland — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:39:30 +0000

Thank you for that comment. I have been trying to find a book or some reference to help me in the installation of ubuntu/fedora/linux etc. I believe that if one could find a simple easy to read book then linux/ubuntu/fedora would seriously compete with windows. Apple seems to have no problem why then ubuntu/etc/ seems to.Or have a simple one line command so that self extract will work. I am sure there are many options out there then why not a forum or something for the new users.

By: Vrai

Vrai — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:48:45 +0000

Software installation in Linux is difficult

+1 for ubuntucat

By: Varun

Varun — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:36:00 +0000

Hmmmm… I don’t know why this pathetic attempt of sarcasm was needed by the author of this article. Well I am a developer. I have only one question. Why don’t you try to install something not present in your repository. Like a build (or rpm or tar.gz or bla bla bla) made by any random person. It is obviously apparent that it is, indeed, Difficult to install software in Linux. I am not a supporter of windows, but I can “FREELY” say that windows gives its user the comfort Linux has never able to achieve till date. Why have dependencies? Why can’t you provide one single package with everything. Why is user expected to configure s/w after installing – which btw is an absolute pain in the a**. Take my words, Don’t waste your time making non-sense article like this. Instead, try to find the real cause of this “user-friendliness” if Linux and give your contribution – I think the code is “FREE”. I’ve wasted enough time of my life struggling with this unplanned s/w but today, after reading this kiddish article, I could not help my self wasting a few more minutes. Grow up guys.

Pity…

By: opsc05

opsc05 — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:04:52 +0000

I see much debate on which OS is better. I want to share my experience using ubuntu. I made the live cd easily. I installed ubuntu using the cds gui. The software gave my tv an invalid format error. I unistall and install a few times until I get the drivers right. I am using the OS daily for about two weeks. Thus far I cannot find my disk or usb drives. When I want to open a file, the OS tells me I do not have permission. I’m the only user. Running a file I either get no response, need permission, and/or not executable. Packages are never found after following Ubuntu’s help pages. I HATE typing gibberish to get the files I want. Nothing works with Linux-school, work, or games. I get errors that make absolutely no sense. How the am I suppose to know where these packages live? I’m not a repository index. Programs take so long to open I wonder if I clicked “open”. Firefox, home folder, software center, and others are at about 15-20 seconds on average just to highlight that icon, then five more seconds to open. The system isn’t feasible if you want to get anything accomplished quickly. Just to load a movie player it was passwords 2x’s, lines of command, questions to continue, accept, then find where the program went, then another password entry, finally after the popcorn had been eaten and a party of bored kids the player had an error, force quit, on to connecting another PC to run WMP for them. Click play on file in windows voila the movie played. I know this OS is probably awesome for people whom like to tinker. I don’t want to program anything. I just want to click, click, boom, done. GUI 100% is my dream. I don’t want to go back to oregon trail days looking at a terminal on dos/grub. Windows and MAC does not give me problems. I may not be on the top of the security list, but I don’t keep info I’d hate to share on the pc. I can’t tell you the last time I ran command on Mac or Windows. Linux every other minute,nothing but a hassle. Now that I have uninstalled linux my pc will not accept the Windows bootdisk. I wish I hadn’t listened about using Linux…”it’s free, it’s lightweight, no viruses, easy to use now for beginners”.
My PC is 4GB of RAM 3GHZ Processor brand. I know it can handle a good OS.

By: Diseño Web

Diseño Web — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:23:49 +0000

I think this is a little unfair. You’re comparing the best case scenario in Linux with the worst case scenario in Windows. While I agree that for anything in the repositories, Linux and especially Ubuntu is easier than anything Windows has, installing from a .deb package is about the same. The windows example you give *pales* in comparison to the misery and grief of trying to compile from source or install via .rpm without proper dependencies.

By: Ola

Ola — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:55:18 +0000

Hehe, first i thought you were kinda stupid. Then realized that the post was not only funny, but also sadly true. Maby in 10-15 years, the windows users will be convinced..

By: Emanuel

Emanuel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:09:47 +0000

LOL ahahah
It’s a funny truth, but it’s not totally truth, because for beginners it’s not that easy to understand terminal and that codes and some people give up Linux for that reason. Would be better if the installation of .tar programs was like next-next-next…

By: Evidex

Evidex — Sun, 09 May 2010 15:13:44 +0000

Oh that was brilliant :)

Cheers for the laugh :)

By: Ohshi

Ohshi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:05:08 +0000

And yeah, you are not compiling from source here, its fukken binary packages. Try Gentoo.

By: Ohshi

Ohshi — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:04:17 +0000

Oh, two-click Ubuntu’s GUI is difficult for you?
Try Gentoo.
And also: there are a lot more steps in your windows example :D