Hi :) That is comparing apples and oranges. Installing a whole DE is more like setting up an OS and not at all just installing a simple program. Windows doesn't allow people to use a different DE, which is what a lot of the fuss is about wrt Win8.
For most normal programs i use the more complicated "Synaptic Package Manager". It's search beats googling, then i tick all the extra programs i want to install or try out, when i have chosen all the extra programs i click on the button "Install now". Job done. With Windows i have to google it. Each different program needs to be installed separately and the different installers conflict with each other so i have to keep an eye on which ones finish when so i can start installing the next one. Each program comes from a different website and there is no real way of having complete confidence in any of those sites being genuine or spoofed (and therefore really giving me malware). If i do choose the Windows route in Gnu&Linux, as i only do for LibreOffice and Evolution, then i do have to google-it for the instructions which i then copy&paste onto a command-line. It's possible to use a point&click route but i find it easier to just use copy&paste. I don't really need to use the ultra-latest LibreOffice so i could choose to stick with whatever gets installed when i install the OS. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 15:50 Subject: Re: Installing an OS, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??) On 10/08/2013 10:11 AM, James Knott wrote: > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: >> I think we would have more Linux users if packages like LO can be >> installed with one "click" of the mouse onto the install file as Windows >> does with the .msi file. > That can already be done. Generally, if a package is available as an > RPM or DEB file, then clicking on it will run the installer. > Have you tried to do that for LO? How many package files need to be run to install LO on a Linux "box"? There are 52 .deb files to run/install in the 4.1.2 64-bit Debian install, plus the help pack, plus the language pack if needed. Like to do a single click or double-click to install all of those files? Sure, there are complete software packages, like Artha and VLC, that have a single .deb file, but that is not true for all of the software out there. I forget how many commands need to be run just to get MATE installed. SO it would be nice to be able to have a single file to run, like with Windows' .msi file, to install LO on a Debian-based system like my Ubuntu 12.04LTS. But I have to: 1- uncompress the downloaded file 2 - open the terminal and go to the proper folder/directory created by the uncompressing 3 - run a command like sudo dpkg -i *.deb then if you have the older versions, you need to install the "menu" package 4 - do it all over again [steps 1 - 3] for the language packs and help packs you need to use. Windows' install is simpler 1 - run the .msi file 2 - make choices in the dialog boxes 3 - let it do all of the rest of the work 4 - install the help pack[s] as needed with a single click or double-click. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
