On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> Exactly true. Its more like the analogy of cars. Some people prefer >> Ford, some Chevrolet, others like Mercedes-Benz better, but ultimately >> they all have an engine that runs on fuel. > A better analogy that involves cars needs some additional detail: Different > automakers put the driver's seat in different locations. Mercedes right > front, Ford right rear, Chevy on the luggage rack, Jaguar in the trunk, etc. Yeah, that's why different Linux -- Gentoo, Fedora, Slackware, openSUSE, Ubuntu, etc... > And I say that because package management is a viciously nasty user > experience. Once you've committed to learning one of them, you definitely > don't want to learn how to use another one - assuming, you know, you actually > have work to do rather than just screwing around with computers all day long, > learning mindnumbing estoteric b.s like package managers. > And fuel in this analogy, is the linux kernel. The only thing they have in > common is the kernel, which by all rights end users should be the least > interested in or interact with. > I would rather gut myself than learn another package management system, even > if I had the time. I just want a little icon to click on and maybe a button > that says Install, because I actually care to spend time using the > application I've gone to the effort to locate, rather than figuring out how > to install, remove, or update it. > I wonder how many thousands of man hours are consumed maintaining the > different packaging systems, and manually dealing with dependency conflict > resolution. It must be insane. I wonder even the life is short to learn so much types of things in Linux! Great!! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
