On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Ashwin Dixit <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Ashwin Dixit > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yet, the Linux community seem to have two conflicting agendas: > > > > Choose your poison. The FOSS eco system allows you both. > > > > > Arun, I am acutely aware that the FOSS eco system offers a wide variety of > choices. > The problem is not that there are too many Linux distros. > The problem is that there are too many Linux application package formats. > Every distro has it's own builtin package manager and repos. If you want to muck around you jolly well educate yourself on whatever it is you are doing . > When a Windows or BSD ( *BSD | OS X ) user locates a desired application on > the Internet, they pretty much know it will run for them. > On Linux, you have to use the right package manager to install a desired > application based on its package format, and your architecture. > Choice is great for the brilliant Linux hacker, but terrible for the > average Linux user. > > Rubbish. > For an OS to be intelligent and user-friendly, it has to hide its > complexity from the common user. > The OS should just DWIM ( Do What I Mean ). > More rubbish. I cant install the simplest hardware on doze because of the utter stupidity of the error reporting and 20MB of crappy click once crash everywhere bloatware. Rest of your post is a pile of rubbish. -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
