On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Atle Solbakken <a...@goliathdns.no> wrote:
> The reason why most people don't have Linux-distros on their home box is > because no-one is forcing people to use it. Linux-distros are decentralized > projects with no intention of making any money and therefore no need to make > people using it. Geeks, like me, often ends up with Linux because they want > to be the computers boss, not the computers slave. > I feel for adding a few things about user-friendlyness. > Debian does not come with any centralized registry which helps all this > trash Joe talks about to hide away. Windows puts preferences of installed > programs, Windows itself, information about file types, hardware +++ into > this registry file which just grows and grows every week making your box > slower and slower, ultimatly forcing you to re-install everything. This > registry is the root of all evil on Windows, let me compare Microsofts > solutions using the registry with Debians methods. > In Debian, there's in very few cases any need to install or configure any > hardware drivers, everything is fixed for you automagically every boot. You > can take a hard drive with Debian out from one box and move it to another > box with different hardware, and it'll just auto-detect everything when you > boot it. That's user friendly. > Windows would have needed to 'install' loads of drivers (install == putting > more garbage into the registry) on the first boot, you would need to > download loads of drivers for graphics, sound etc. (more registry pollution) > and then you would need to buy another licence because Gates detects that > the hardware is different. > Every program in Debian is itself responsible for storing it's own settings, > usually in the per-user home directories (Firefox puts stuff in > /home/xxx/.mozilla for instance). If you want to delete the Firefox > settings, just delete the folder. In Windows, you have no easy way to remove > a programs preferences. > A Debian package is mostly just an archive with some files in it. When a > package is installed, the files are copied to the file system. If the > program needs to start on boot, like a server, it puts startup scripts into > dedicated directories. Some programs also have configuration files, usually > located in /etc/. When the package is removed, the files are deleted. > When you install or uninstall a program on Windows, you have no guarantee > that the people who made the software have writes their uninstall code > properly. Many programs leaves loads of stuff behind (registry trash) when > uninstalled. > Debian provides a set of high quality packages which properly cleans up > after themselves on uninstall. Thanks for this great explanation Atle. But using Debian would require a user to know such basic aspects before hand and it is expected....I hope in the future, Linux would be more and more popular every where....I wonder why I was using Windows! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHBpLRPByM7Lgu8+-a=ateRthjX_vk=cehsvecptap9txw8...@mail.gmail.com