pfarrell;537544 Wrote: > mudlark wrote: > > If a new user can't get the thing working easily from scratch the > > "Linux is geekware" gets thrown around. This bug is so easy to fix > as > > it is just a dependency problem. So why hasn't it been fixed. The > last > > thing I want is to complain and complain, but this has been going on > > for months now for no apparent reason. > > Wait a minutes. You say that you are not facile with Linux, and you > are > then complaining that SqueezeBoxServer is not as wonderful as you > want? > > Can I ask why you are using Linux instead of Windows or OS-X or > whatever > you are facile with? > > > > linux users seem to me to be keen on the open source aspect and a > good > > deal of them want to see distros become accessible to the person in > the > > street. If the bug fixing is slapdash then ......... > > Open source software is about the people who use it making it better. > > > The support for semi literates such as me is exemplary, but the > linux > > experience isn't straight forward and it should be. > > I don't expect this to ever happen. It takes tons of engineering time > and QA time and Product Management time to get the support/experience > right. Firms like Apple and Microsoft have the resources and desire to > do so for their products. > > There is no company with such resources anywhere in the same league as > Apple or Microsoft. The geeks who develop Linux and the distros are > geeks, they are not going to want to do this for free. I don't see it > happening. > > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
Ok, you win, I give up. You don't seem to even want to accept the point I am trying to make. I am well able to cope with kubuntu. It's not my experience I am trying to make a point about. You are defending the indefensible. A bug hasn't been fixed properly.......I tried three times to get the situation resolved. What do I have to do? Just go away and make less noise? pat you have helped me many times in the past. Why you chose to respond in this thoroughly negative way is beyond me. It doesn't help me and it doesn't deal with my point so why bother pressing the keys at all? -- mudlark SB3>CyrusDACX>PreXvs>ESPAudio P09B Active filter>NAP140+260A>Rhapsody, Avondale and Naim cable, Kubuntu Karmic Koala servers, various boxes for storage. SB3 Flycatcher 3A linear power supply. Using SqueezeBox Server 7.4.2 testing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mudlark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7151 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77541 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
