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torg:
Linux lacks one unified installer for all distributions. that's its biggest flaw...
est:
you think that that's it's biggest flaw? hehe. how about lack of driver support, lack of game developer's support, and lack of a unified underlying directory/file structure?
i swear to god, i install debian, mandrake/redhat & gentoo and they're all different. got me looking all over the goddamn place for things that should be kept standard. debian even changed things to something different again between woody & sarge.
it's fucking annoying, because i want to use linux. it's just that it isn't up to my standards as yet :/
synecdoche:
I am hardly any kind of Linux "guru" but I'll echo the recommendation for SuSE. I think it is a lovely distro.
torg:
--- Quote from: est ---you think that that's it's biggest flaw? hehe. how about lack of driver support, lack of game developer's support, and lack of a unified underlying directory/file structure?
--- End quote ---
driver support is not so bad, lots of folks are working on it. game developers support is not so bad, too, think of SDL and all that stuff. most developers complain about the lack of support, but actually evrything is there. the publisher just dont want games for linux, because linux still has a too small market share to be profitable. on the otherhan some games are also ported to linux, just have a look at doom3 or neverwinter nights.
and there is no lack of a unified underlying directory/file structure. there are recommendations in the POSIX standard, but some distros ignore them. on the other hand, look at any windows machine. half of the software and data are spread all over the hd, ignoring any directory structure. some softwares dont even run, if you dont put them in c:\thesoftwaresname\ ... there's no real difference to any linuxdistro in that.
an a unified installer could help fixing the strange directory-philosphy on linux....
painQuin:
I'll probably get flamed and burned for this, but RPMs and gzipped tarballs are pretty close to standard
I have to say, tar -xvzf; make; make install; can often take less time than some windows installers, and urpmi <appname> is pretty darned speedy if you have a good resource (say, the cs department of your university)
RPMs work on redhat and mandrake, and tarballs work just about everywhere - and I prefer rpms because of dependancy checking, urpmi can be told to grab all the dependancies for what you want to install
it's a lot easier than trying to track down required stuff for windows
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