The difficulty of installing additional applicatio
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 28, 2005 02:57 AM
I think more could be said of the difficulty of aquiring and installing additional applications, whether one talks about things like gaim, firefox, or third party windows proprietary software. Consider, with any modern GNU/Linux distro, like say Mepis, you can pull up a nice friendly synaptic menu, find what you want, request it, and it is installed, automatically, and nearly immediately, over the internet. This is how software installation should work in the 21st century.
To install even common software like firefox and gaim, one has to download and seperately install it. However, even worse, are those applications you have to pay for. You cant simply request them to download and install on demand when you want them. While you may spend considerably more, you receive far less convenience for the price. After all you have to wait or aquire some clunky cd-rom media from some store or for it's delivery through the mail, like reliving an early 1980's version of sneaker-net, or like having hand-cranks on cars all over again.
Until Windows XP can get past the model-T era software distribution model for licensing and installing additional applications, I do not consider it suitable for non-technical users either.
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The difficulty of installing additional applicatio
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 28, 2005 02:57 AMTo install even common software like firefox and gaim, one has to download and seperately install it. However, even worse, are those applications you have to pay for. You cant simply request them to download and install on demand when you want them. While you may spend considerably more, you receive far less convenience for the price. After all you have to wait or aquire some clunky cd-rom media from some store or for it's delivery through the mail, like reliving an early 1980's version of sneaker-net, or like having hand-cranks on cars all over again.
Until Windows XP can get past the model-T era software distribution model for licensing and installing additional applications, I do not consider it suitable for non-technical users either.
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