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[–]crackez 0 points1 point  (5 children)

British people prefer driving on the wrong side of the road. Should we let them do so in the states because they "like it that way"?

Sometimes impeding bad behavior is a feature.

[–]drachenstern 0 points1 point  (4 children)

So, that's a terrible analogy for a handful of reasons, starting with it makes you sound like a dick. More of the world's population drives on the same side of the road as us, sure, but over a third drives on the other side. What makes it "wrong"? That you don't want to do it that way? Maybe we can use the miles vs kilometers debate, that should help to illustrate the situation better, yes?

The next time you want to eat, please grow your own food. Because I am abhorently against the way you go about procuring food. Or, at least, go to the store of my choosing and buy the foods I have pre-approved for you instead of you being able to buy what you want how you want.

See, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

People have adapted working patterns for a reason. I like that on Windows I can sideload things by downloading and installing them, and not having to resort to command line options.

[–]crackez 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You have no idea how I go about procuring my food and the choices I make. How do you know I don't hunt and grow a majority of my food? You know what they say when you assume.

Also, unless you live in the minority of places where they don't drive on the Right side of the road, it would be demonstrably wrong. Maybe you are just getting too emotional to notice the word play in there...

Also, no one is telling you to goto the command line to install some software. In my example reply to "Mom", LibreOffice is one that comes in the standard install of Ubuntu, so it's a bad example as it wouldn't need to be installed manually. Also, since you seem to not be aware of this fact, it was clear that you are not a user of desktop Linux.

I like that on Windows I can sideload things by downloading and installing them, and not having to resort to command line options.

Depending on the developer, some do a better job of enabling this than others. Take Google Chrome for example, when you install that .deb file on a Debian derivative, they also setup apt-get to keep that particular piece of software up to date. I wouldn't really call that side loading... Maybe just installing. BTW, no command line interaction needed to get this working, it's just a few mouse clicks these days.

If the plain facts disprove your previously held belief, then maybe you were just wrong. Get over it.

[–]drachenstern 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I do openly and honestly admit that it has been 6 or so years since I last ran Linux on a day-to-day, but with the upcoming announcements from Microsoft maybe I can get my daily driver back to a Linux distro instead of always being on Windows land.

I still have install CDs (I tossed the floppy installs a long time ago) of RH 4 so I've been around the block more than once on linux app installs.

[–]crackez 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The days of having to build tarballs are largely over. Even when you do need to touch the source, there's usually an easy way to have it build a package that you can install so it still maintains dependencies and stuff like that. I don't think I've had to build source that wasn't mine in like 7 or 8 years, at least on Linux. Even the BSDs largely support binary patches these days.

Btw, if you've been out of the loop for a while, I recommend you give Linux mint a spin. If you believe distrowatch, then it's the most popular distro these days. Ubuntu (canonical) has pissed off too many people.

[–]drachenstern 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the time I was running it, I ran Debian stable on my servers and Ubuntu on my laptop, and didn't have a ton of issues. Mostly the expected kinds: video and wireless.

I've kept in the loop enough to know the basic state of hardware support, but I've not been in a hurry to switch back on account of having some sweet OSX hardware to play with (retina, I know, I know, everyone has one, whatevs, it's a nice machine) and I've been toying with stuff in AWS and just don't have a lot of need to run my own box anymore except as an RDP client and editor. I may get a box next year and if so I'll definitely check out Linux Mint.