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Human Cattle Amarr Eve University Ivy League	Posted - 2007.07.28 09:49:00 - [1] Originally by: Patch86 Originally by: Gyrn Fzirth bolded the relevant part of this asinine argument. I upgraded java, yet didn't have to upgrade my drivers to x.y.z, upgrade my window manager to n, upgrade all other dependent parts of the pacakge within the os to k, y, l, o, l because its not NECESSARY to do so. I upgrade java without a concern about which sp of the os I'm on. Linux requires users to upgrade packages that (in the user view of things) are utterly unrelated and totally separate from the fricking application or service they are trying to upgrade. Package management in windows is SIMPLE because you only need to manage the packages for the relevant application or service. Linux on the other hand requires a fricking act of congress and recompilation of the kernel to accomplish basic things. When I install a program in Windows, I run the installer for that program. It then prompts me that I need [whatever] version of Direct X, so I go and run a separate installer for that. It might prompt me that I need to update my .NET Runtime Environment, so I run a third installer for that. If its a graphics-intensive program, it may require a video driver update; I go to the website and download the fourth installer for that. In Linux, to install the same program I simply click "install". If any of that other stuff needs doing, the dependency tree will sort itself out without my interference. sigh, typical worst case windows (and actually non-sensical) Vs best case linux (what distro are you thinking of? one's i've used this year have horrific package management and incredibly slow updating). this kind of BS should be outlawed, people might actually start believing it. fact is installing/upgrading linux is much, much more involved than upgrading in windows. Even in the latest versions of mandrake and opensuse, installing and upgrading is a damn pain and takes ages for the tree to resolve. And that's when I don't have to go into command line and do it myself. -------------- unhappy cogs :(((

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