On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Ashwin Dixit ganeshacomputes@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Arun Khan knura9@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Ashwin Dixit ganeshacomputes@gmail.com wrote:
Yet, the Linux community seem to have two conflicting agendas:
Choose your poison. The FOSS eco system allows you both.
Arun, I am acutely aware that the FOSS eco system offers a wide variety of choices. The problem is not that there are too many Linux distros. The problem is that there are too many Linux application package formats.
Every distro has it's own builtin package manager and repos.
If you want to muck around you jolly well educate yourself on whatever it is you are doing .
When a Windows or BSD ( *BSD | OS X ) user locates a desired application on the Internet, they pretty much know it will run for them. On Linux, you have to use the right package manager to install a desired application based on its package format, and your architecture. Choice is great for the brilliant Linux hacker, but terrible for the average Linux user.
Rubbish.
For an OS to be intelligent and user-friendly, it has to hide its complexity from the common user. The OS should just DWIM ( Do What I Mean ).
More rubbish. I cant install the simplest hardware on doze because of the utter stupidity of the error reporting and 20MB of crappy click once crash everywhere bloatware.
Rest of your post is a pile of rubbish.