[plug] Easy Installation: Linux Desktop Market

[Alex Nordstrom]

Top-posting is still evil.

Wednesday, 26 October 2005 14:44, John Knight wrote:
> when all I have to do is show my windoze using mates how Linux
> software is installed and they take an instant dislike to it.

You should see the confused look on my English speaking friends' faces 
when I start addressing them in Swedish. Yet, most Swedes find it a 
completely natural way of communicating. Funny, that.

> Whenever something like
> .autopackage or some other 'wild' thing comes along, people turn
> instant prejudice against it.

And when someone comes up with a new airplane design, it also gets 
heavily scrutinised. It's just not the engineering approach to blindly 
accept "new" as "better". Particularly if it entails a regression to 
problems associated with legacy concepts.

> The point of these ideas isn't to 
> replace what is already in place, but to add to it. If you don't
> wanna use it, fine..... but why feel threatened and shout it down?

To some of us, not voicing concerns that certain ideas could lead to 
trouble for others or that their proponents might be wasting their time 
is downright immoral.

> why not try something new? It's just so ironic that a community based
> around choice and freedom can be so amazingly stubborn.

I'm not sure how you equate cautioning of pitfalls of a technology with 
prohibiting others from using it. Is it not my freedom to speak up when 
I think something is amiss?

The Ubuntu anecdote will have to be addressed with the admins concerned, 
but they are of course free to apply their own rules to the resources 
they provide.

> Why would a new user
> be interested in idiotic debian-slackware-rpm wars?

Who said they should be? Package management incompatibility may well be 
a significant problem, and I'm sure there could be improvements in 
front-end applications, but that does not incriminate the package 
management concept as such.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
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