In which SJVN puts his foot in a giant pile of poo again. Incidentally, has anybody ever seen an article entitled “Installing Windows Software” out there? Some Linux users appear to need it…
SJVN claims:
Chances are good you won’t need to install any software on a Linux desktop. I like bricks, me.
If you’re looking for a specific replacement for a Windows program you love, you have two choices. These are apparently Wine and CrossOver. Err, Steven …
Unless you’re using beta or obscure software, you should never need to compile a program or pry its code out of a compressed tar.gz file. Yes, you heard right. If you need to ConfigureMakeMakeInstall™ yourself, then by definition the codez are beta or obscure.
Show me a single user who has never had to build a Linux program from scratch. Just one. (Hoppi doesn’t count.)
In Windows, you run an install program from a Web site or a CD/DVD. The problem with this is that you have to trust that the installation program is what it says that it is. Sometimes, it’s not. Yep, there’s a gazillion rogue CD/DVD installation programs out there. (Some even include dangerous malware called “Linux Distributions.”) Plus:
With Linux and package managers, the program has already been tested and approved by the Linux distributor before you can get to it. Well, Mr Linux Distributor would know, wouldn’t he? It’s not like tested and approved packages ever break a Linux distribution. And it’s not like Microsoft have an equivalent certification program.
Well, actually, it’s not like that at all. Microsoft’s certification program actually works.
Every single paragraph after this is full of shit, but it gets tiring to enumerate the inanities. Here’s SJVN’s final assertion:
Once you get used to how Linux installs software, you’ll find it ever bit as easy as installing programs in Windows. Show me a single, honest, person who could possibly believe this without wearing a strait-jacket at the time. Flexible, fun, secure? All possible (if stupid) arguments. But every bit as easy? Demonstrably false.
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lol, about the With Linux and package managers, the program has already been tested and approved by the Linux distributor before you can get to it
On the right in the “hot posts” there is an article about Linux failing to install firefox 3.6. Actually that’s not new, there has never been a new version of ff that would work in our all favorite distro.
The first comment goes to a freetard who suggests to add some line in some apt-get gui of ubuntu to finally get it. And concludes:
You have successfully bypassed ubuntu’s software quality and security verification processes and will be using the hot-of-the-press latest daily version of firefox available.
Some people claim with the package managers, especially apt-get you are save from the famous “dependency hell” from the 90s. With changing the universe of apt-get you DEFINITELY go to this hell again.
Just found it funny because it was a direct link from the SJVN article. Not many persons get paid for trolling
did I just fail at html?
Comments on this site + HTML = Fail
Shame on you admin :P!
As for SJVN’s usual stupidity, we’ve all heard this a million times before, it’s a lie, and it’s really getting annoying.
I wonder what a non technical user thinks when he searches for something in synaptic and about 3 billion packages appear.
Repositories are just a horrible waste of resources, more so considering there’s almost one per distro.
@Kommenter, eventually there will be textile support for the comments once I’m done the “great comments overhaul”.
I was joking admin, but still, good to know.
Yup, we’ve all heard it a million times before. It’s a lie. It’s annoying.
Just my little attempt to refocus FUDDery to actual FUD.
On the other hand, I’m far more impressed by JoeMonco’s deconstruction of Widenius’ Eighth Symphony.
On a positive note: does anybody out there have a link to something that SJVN said, which makes any sense whatsoever?
I mean, the man is a self-confessed CyberCynic™. I don’t want to be too cyberical. Surely he’s passed his SATs, or something?
What a nasty little Stalinist prat Monty must be.
“something that SJVN said, which makes any sense whatsoever?”
Kernel Panic – not syncing: Fatal paradox in sentence
:)
Hee hee hee. Well spotted.
“Kernel panic: not a bicycle.”
It’s somewhere deep buried in the original Unix Hater’s Handbook. Fun then, fun now.
Strange how so very little changes over twenty years or so.
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