On 9/23/13 5:30 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:
On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 21:21:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
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Yea, I find installing software is often (not always, but often)
*easier* on Linux these days, thanks to apt and such. It used to be a
nightmare of dependency issues in the days of dpkg/rpm[1]. But now,
most of the time it's just one trivial command. Done. Or if you prefer
GUIs, the...uhh...what's it called, Synaptec?, is just as easy, *and*
good for discoverability: It's basically a freeware app store, but
Linux had it even *before* iOS.
Just a short story to reinforce the above point. In our Grad Lab
at school the girl I sat beside was also the system admin. One
day I was working and I needed a piece of software that wasn't
installed on my computer. So I asked her if she could install it
when she had the chance.
She said "sure" and asked me for the PC name I was working on so
I to told her, and then I said, "No great rush, but can you let
me know when you have it installed". Without a pause she just
said, "It's already installed". I typed the command and the
program started. Total time 6 or 7 seconds.
I was very impressed (the lab computers ran Ubuntu).
Marriage material! :o)
Andrei
