this is software. software has bugs.
software packaging only seems simple - but in fact is really not,
because of the exponential amount of combinations that simply can't be
exhaustively tested, and because it depends on code written by thousands
of unrelated developers, that work on their
After more than 20 years using Linux, I have ABSOLUTELY no thoughts
about moving to Windows. My point was that a new user might be daunted
by dependency hell. Whether we like it or not, Windows is the de-facto
OS and if we want to see people moving to Linux, it's got to be better.
On Mon, 12
Just to comment on your original post.
Don't think for one moment that things are any better in Windows.
The difference with APT issues is that there *is* something you can do
about it, and ultimately, the problem is resolvable by you.
In Windows things look a lot prettier, but I have often had an
Thanks for your VERY detailed reply. Some of it was "over my head", but
relevant and true - although I personally like and use KDE despite it
being quite bloated for many years now.
As an aside - I got rid of KMail, Akonadi and all their "friends" years
ago. It's hard to believe that an email
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 09:05:24 +0300
Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved
> my problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam.
[snip successful attempts using a ~10 step apt/dpkg witch's brew]
I feel your pain. Probably we all do.
On 11/08/2019 9:05, Shlomo Solomon
wrote:
Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved my
problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam.
I'll do my best to defend.
binations of commands such as:
sudo apt-get
On 11/08/2019 4:42, Ari Becker wrote:
> No, it doesn't have to be that hard. Plugging NixOS:
> https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html which solves this issue by making
> safe rollbacks as easy as rebooting and choosing the previous immutable
> system configuration.
Nixos and the similar Guix indeed
Thanks.
I'm not familair with nixos and I certainly don't want to start a
discussion of which distro is better, but I will comment:
1 - IF this works as stated on the nixos site, I hope it will spread to
other distros
2 - changing distros because of a problem like I had is really overkill
3 - I
No, it doesn't have to be that hard. Plugging NixOS:
https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html which solves this issue by making safe
rollbacks as easy as rebooting and choosing the previous immutable system
configuration.
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 9:06 AM Shlomo Solomon
wrote:
> Let me start by saying
Let me start by saying that I'm not looking for a solution - I solved my
problem. I'm just angry and letting off some steam.
I've been using Linux for over 20 years. I'm pretty sure a novice would
have just quit and either deleted the whole mess or gone back to
Windows.
Fixing broken
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