Thanks Rick, for your offer to help. My long winded reply to a similar
offer by Ken describes what is actually bugging me. I greatly admire
Linux and what the Linux community are out to achieve and what sounds
like a whinge is really meant to be a suggestion. Or my clumsy attempt
to contribute. I would appreciate your comment.
John.
Rick Welykochy wrote:
john gibbons wrote:
I would like to raise the goal post for Linux software interface
developers from 'intuitional' to 'bloody obvious'. I am getting some
frustration off my chest after trying to download some Linux software
for the first time and get it up and running. According to the
directions it was easy. My question is : for whom?
Welcome to a world where there is no QA, where there is no standard
installation process and where your very mettle will be tested to the
limit when you install FOSS. But once you do, you will know alot about
the underlying architecture of the operating system you are using.
So tell us, John, which package caused you grief? Perhaps we can
show you the way to easier installs.
cheers
rickw
p.s. the quality FOSS installation (on Linux, Unix, etc) can vary
from something sterling like Perl (works seamlessly everytime on every
platform I've tried) to downright dreadful (not naming names).
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