{"id":1310,"date":"2009-05-18T12:41:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2009-05-18T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T16:41:30","slug":"know-why-software-installation-is-difficult-on-linux-its-a-secret-i-cant-tell-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/know-why-software-installation-is-difficult-on-linux-its-a-secret-i-cant-tell-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Know why software installation is difficult on Linux? It&#8217;s a secret. I can&#8217;t tell you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this line from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=338839\">Preston Gralla&#8217;s latest bit of anti-Linux propaganda<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But when you try to install new software [in Linux], or upgrade existing software, you&#8217;ll be in for trouble. I won&#8217;t get down and dirty with the details here, but believe me, it&#8217;s not pretty.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Actually, I don&#8217;t believe you. Why should anyone? I find it quite pretty. I find it beautiful and simple. <\/p>\n<p> Since Gralla doesn&#8217;t want to spend the time explaining to you the details of software installation in Linux, I will. I <i>will<\/i> get down and dirty with the details here. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve been using Ubuntu for the past four years straight. When I want to install software, this is what I do: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I click with my mouse on the <i>Applications<\/i> menu.\n<li>Then I select with my mouse the menu item <i>Add\/Remove<\/i>.\n<li>I do a search in a little text search field (which I can click in with my mouse) for the software I want (or what the software does) and then some results come up in the search with little pictures and descriptions next to them.\n<li>I pick the result I want and check with my mouse the little checkbox next to it.\n<li>Then I click with my mouse the <i>Apply<\/i> button.<\/ul>\n<p> That&#8217;s it. Some pretty dirty details there. If you want to see screenshots of this &#8220;not pretty&#8221; process, you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntu\/installingsoftware\">my Ubuntu software installation page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>  And the best part is that I don&#8217;t even have to worry about upgrading applications. Every six months when I upgrade Ubuntu, all my applications automatically get upgraded. How easy is that? <\/p>\n<p> Gralla, welcome to 2009 (or actually even 2005). I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re still using Linux distributions from ten years ago. Do I make judgments on Windows based on my experiences with Windows ME?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this line from Preston Gralla&#8217;s latest bit of anti-Linux propaganda: But when you try to install new software [in Linux], or upgrade existing software, you&#8217;ll be in for trouble. I won&#8217;t get down and dirty with the details here, but believe me, it&#8217;s not pretty. Actually, I don&#8217;t believe you. Why should anyone?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/know-why-software-installation-is-difficult-on-linux-its-a-secret-i-cant-tell-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Know why software installation is difficult on Linux? It&#8217;s a secret. I can&#8217;t tell you.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[911,599,598,600,556],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-microsoft-shill","tag-preston-gralla","tag-software-installation","tag-tech-journalism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}