Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jun 25 12:56:16 UTC 2009
Martin Soto wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 00:19 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>> >From the appcenter wiki page:
>>
>> "If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows
>> user, it's installing new software. Be prepared to enter a new world in
>> which Windows Update is a model of simplicity by comparison, and in
>> which you may feel as if you need a Ph.D. in physics merely to install
>> new applications or updates.
>>
>> — Preston Gralla, “Living free with Linux: 2 weeks without Windows”,
>> Computerworld"
>>
>> I am surprised: all the people I ever heard talking of ubuntu, including
>> non-geeks, appreciate the simplicity of adding and removing
>> applications. Perhaps that comment is a bit outdated even if, since the
>> beginning of times, comparing synaptic with windows tools is a laughable
>> joke, to say the least.
>
> This is becoming off-topic for this thread, but it is an important point
> in and by itself.
>
> The comment is not so outdated. Gralla's article [1] is from January
> 2009 and applies to Ubuntu 8.04, at least according to the included
> screenshots. If you read the article right after the text quoted above,
> you will notice that his problem was rather that he tried to apply his
> Windows-power-user knowledge to Ubuntu, with disastrous results.
Indeed. I commented at the time. He was determined to install non-Ubuntu
software from source - which isn't so difficult either but not with his
knowledge level. Windows update couldn't have done the job either.
--
derek
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