Most people aren’t capable of sifting through hundreds of options in a configuration applet, so they’re left fighting things like the automated list formatting in larger word processors. Morty, you honestly think that people just complain about bloat because it’s popular? The problem is that the added features slow down the application, especially starting it, and actually interfere with normal usage. That’s exactly what I was thinking, plus it doesn’t have the bloat that’s so common in word processors now. We like downloading and installing with one line.Īs for Joe User, he would be a lot better served by being forced to take a minute to learn a system that he will find easier and faster than to be pandered to by derivative aping of the OS you seem to want him to be able to migrate away from in the first place. We actually like code reuse, fixing a bug in one place in a library instead of in each application that uses it. ![]() Those of us who actually use a linux distro with dependency resolution and have for some time and actually are familiar with something other than the windows way of setup.exe already know it’s easier, and for the most part deplore your attempts to suckify the process of installing software on Linux. If they were to use Linux and get over their fear of what’s different, they’d see it was easier and quicker. The first doesn’t win by being easier, it wins only because people are used to it (though not necessarily good at it if you look at all the adware people inadvertently install along with the App they were after). Click on open office, then click install, then apply” (something like that, not using Xandros here) “open Xandros Networks and expand office. We’ve got “go to, click on download (the stable version), choose language, OS, and location, save the file, then run it (possibly involving navigating explorer to some random folder) and click next a whole lot” ![]() If you are using a distro that doesn’t do this, maybe you are using the wrong distro). (replace with your distro’s command/GUI stuff. I know some pantywaists have a fear of the command line (zOMG, DOS!), but that is where something like Synaptic comes in. This beats googling for a website then figuring out which package to download.
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