On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:22 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > a > > > No - I'm saying that an upgrade that does exactly the same thing as the > earlier version should "just work" without having to research cryptic > error messages you get after the new software fails to load. What I'm > saying is that Linux should be as easy as Windows.
A new MAJOR version release should ring bells that you need to read for any possible problems. This is true for other widely popular software, ie: apache. I will admit, certain distro vendors such as debian/RH/Fedora/Ubuntu , do, do much software a dis-service by their hacks and non standard file locations, because people with problems come to us for support expecting us to fix a mess created by someone else. That I know annoys a lot of people trying to convert to linux from windows and you're right, then they say bugger it and go back to windows. but.. everyone wants to be special I suppose :)
