Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 11, 2005 01:28 AM
"On Microsoft Windows they have<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.exe or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.msi and it works for everybody."
Don't put words in my mouth, nor the mouths of millions of people who it DOES NOT work for. It doesn't work for me because I find it for low-brow computer users, the same users who (a) don't care much about security and (b) want to keep it simple stupid because they are stupid.
"And the kickass NSIS installer."
Both of which have what security options/methods to ensure the contents are secure? None.
"On Linux slackware have<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.tgz, redhat<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.rpm, debian<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.deb, that sucks that there is so many different and incompatible across distributions."
And yet there are tools like alien to bridge the gap, or compiling from source. Are the users going to be running one distro like they would if they used Windows? Then they would be using one format for the most part, and your argument (or poor trolling job) falls apart.
"Also why Linux cant have a LinuxUpdate website like WindowsUpdate. And when you goto it, it checks what software and version you have on your system, then presents a list of newer avaible software and allows you to download and install them?"
WindowsUpdate? LOL! With Ubuntu and Synaptic (or SUSE and YaST, Debian and apt, etc.) it's far superior to WindowsUpdate: Updates are almost all open source, meaning I can see what I'm downloading and updating for myself so I know I'm not getting a backdoor in my system from a loving "trust me if you can" closed source overlord (can you say the same with WindowsUpdate, troll?)
WindowsUpdate needs to be like Linux updates, where you can download from thousands of different choices of programs and update them with a few clicks.
WindowsUpdate doesn't give me that option, nor do I see the option of new kernels supporting new hardware being offered.
Clearly, Windows, WindowsUpdate, and Windows<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.exe files are years behind the features of Linux.
But why am I responding to what is likely another paid FUD spreader from the beast of redmond?
Learn about Linux
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Re:Package management sucks
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 11, 2005 01:28 AMDon't put words in my mouth, nor the mouths of millions of people who it DOES NOT work for. It doesn't work for me because I find it for low-brow computer users, the same users who (a) don't care much about security and (b) want to keep it simple stupid because they are stupid.
"And the kickass NSIS installer."
Both of which have what security options/methods to ensure the contents are secure? None.
"On Linux slackware have<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.tgz, redhat<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.rpm, debian<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.deb, that sucks that there is so many different and incompatible across distributions."
And yet there are tools like alien to bridge the gap, or compiling from source. Are the users going to be running one distro like they would if they used Windows? Then they would be using one format for the most part, and your argument (or poor trolling job) falls apart.
"Also why Linux cant have a LinuxUpdate website like WindowsUpdate. And when you goto it, it checks what software and version you have on your system, then presents a list of newer avaible software and allows you to download and install them?"
WindowsUpdate? LOL! With Ubuntu and Synaptic (or SUSE and YaST, Debian and apt, etc.) it's far superior to WindowsUpdate: Updates are almost all open source, meaning I can see what I'm downloading and updating for myself so I know I'm not getting a backdoor in my system from a loving "trust me if you can" closed source overlord (can you say the same with WindowsUpdate, troll?)
WindowsUpdate needs to be like Linux updates, where you can download from thousands of different choices of programs and update them with a few clicks.
WindowsUpdate doesn't give me that option, nor do I see the option of new kernels supporting new hardware being offered.
Clearly, Windows, WindowsUpdate, and Windows<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.exe files are years behind the features of Linux.
But why am I responding to what is likely another paid FUD spreader from the beast of redmond?
Windows sucks
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