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On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:18, Simon Waters wrote: > Max Siegieda wrote: > > it's the OS's fault because you not only have to do that for one > > program, you have to do it for just about everything that isn't covered > > by synaptic > > Please compare like with like installing software that isn't packaged > for Windows, try starting from a tar ball on Windows, given the requests > I see it seems to me Windows isn't easier, your complaint seems to be > more people package their software for Windows, which isn't an OS fault, > it was always the case the incumbent has more software available. You must also remember that MS and some manufacturers connive to ensure that Linux is hard for their product. To keep your drivers closed makes little difference to your competitors - I could disassemble most drivers and get a pretty good idea of what the hardware that ran it looked like in a couple of days and I would imagine any manufacturer knows what its competitors hardware looks like within a week of release. The only reason to keep your driver software closed - and hence difficult to install on 'unsupported' operating systems is to do a favour for a mate - ie MS. The same goes for software apps to a degree however we must remember here that MS has encouraged bad software design for a long time and poisened standards to ensure its difficult to move away from them. One of the reasons I gave up working in IT was because there were so many MS trained (via bribed universities) script kiddies with first class honours degrees in computing that couldn't debug a simple bit of code or write anything slightly generic that I got bored with wiping their coding bottoms. These people were never going to be Software Engineers let along architects - it was always 'wait till the next SP or Windows OS release comes' out rather than so a simple fix for the MS created problem in the first place. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html