Martin Soto wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 00:19 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: >> >From the appcenter wiki page: >> >> "If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows >> user, it's installing new software. Be prepared to enter a new world in >> which Windows Update is a model of simplicity by comparison, and in >> which you may feel as if you need a Ph.D. in physics merely to install >> new applications or updates. >> >> — Preston Gralla, “Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows”, >> Computerworld" >> >> I am surprised: all the people I ever heard talking of ubuntu, including >> non-geeks, appreciate the simplicity of adding and removing >> applications. Perhaps that comment is a bit outdated even if, since the >> beginning of times, comparing synaptic with windows tools is a laughable >> joke, to say the least. > > This is becoming off-topic for this thread, but it is an important point > in and by itself. > > The comment is not so outdated. Gralla's article [1] is from January > 2009 and applies to Ubuntu 8.04, at least according to the included > screenshots. If you read the article right after the text quoted above, > you will notice that his problem was rather that he tried to apply his > Windows-power-user knowledge to Ubuntu, with disastrous results.
Indeed. I commented at the time. He was determined to install non-Ubuntu software from source - which isn't so difficult either but not with his knowledge level. Windows update couldn't have done the job either. -- derek -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
