On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:09:35 +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > Actually, my biggest problem with linux is how terrible the operating > system is compared to DOS and Windows. I'm not even kidding, the unix > terminal debacle sucks (maybe good when you had various hardware, but it > is weak next to what the PC hardware offers), the available system > facilities suck (Win32 is plenty usable and reliably there! Even on > linux, using a Windows .exe tends to work better than using a linux > binary - exe's just work there thanks to wine, whereas linux binaries > always have some incompatibility). > > Eh I'm getting off topic.
This is a distribution problem; I've stuck with Debian or Debian-based distros over the years and never had issues like this. I view package- management as vastly superior to the Windows solution which is to ship per-application DLLs. I'd much rather do "sudo apt-get install <package>" and have it cheerfully inform me that it only needs to install one or two dependencies because I already have all the other shared libraries.
