On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:10:58 +0200, Sibylle Koczian wrote: > Am 19.04.2013 19:42, schrieb lcrocker: >> I understand that for something like a server distribution, but Ubuntu >> is a user-focused desktop distribution. It has a GUI, always. The >> purpose of a distro like that is to give users a good experience. If I >> install Python on Windows, I get to use Python. On Ubuntu, I don't, and >> I think that will confuse some users. I recently recommended Python to >> a friend who wants to start learning programming. Hurdles like this >> don't help someone like him. > > It's _so_ easy to install an additional package on Ubuntu that that > really shouldn't be called a 'hurdle'. Using tkinter or any other GUI > toolkit is much more difficult for a beginner.
It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have to, and can somehow work out the name of the package. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
