<snipt>
> Hmm. But, if you used a distro to its full power, ie with
> rpmfind for deadrat or apt-get fro debian, then 99% of software
> installs are 100% easier, take less time, and work _right_, a
> considerably more consistantly than on windows. If you happen to be
> writing the software, or installing brand new, way beyond the
> bleading edge releases, sure it's gonna be tricky. But you don't
> get that freedom in Windows.
I agree but what about non-bleeding edge stuff. I was playing around with
debian and loving apt-get except it was amazing how many times I found the
version available was way behind the latest one. and I'm not referring to
the latest devel bleeding edge one. I'm talking about the latest stable
releases of a number of things.
And what about things like Xfree 4. last time I looked anything apt-getable
was still in development and not to be taken lightly. As usual things might
have changed recently but Xf4 has been out for a while...
I hear people say well upgrade to woody or whatever. Well that's all well
and good but if woody is so stable and great why not release Deb 2.3??
Don't get me wrong apt-get is great and it's kept me with debian even when
there are plenty of things pushing me away.. but there are still places
where Linux is lagging behind...
Dan.
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