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Insomniator

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I can't find it on google... there is a cartoon comic about installing a program on windows vs installing one on linux where the linux guy ends up killing his girlfriend or something. Anyone know what i am talking about/have the link?
 
sourceninja

sourceninja

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Never see that.

But I do know that installing programs on linux won't make you kill your wife. Writing file systems for linux makes you kill your wife.
 
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Train

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heres the one I was thinking of, it was actually BSD

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There's also this one:
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Neither of these involve death of a girlfiend though, sorry to dissapoint
 
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Cogman

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Fayd said:
besides, to me, it's a lot easier to install a prog through a package manager than it is in windows.
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The Ubuntu and Debian package handling system is pretty slick, however, if you want to install a package not on the list (or upgrade it), heaven help you if you don't have all the dependencies installed.

Its hard to beat the single target of windows for installing binaries. You always know what is native and what needs to be included with your package.
 
Pheran

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sourceninja said:
Never see that.

But I do know that installing programs on linux won't make you kill your wife. Writing file systems for linux makes you kill your wife.
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LOL, that is awesome, and only the true geeks will get it. :)

Reminds me of the old Wikipedia edit.

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ShawnD1

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Fayd said:
besides, to me, it's a lot easier to install a prog through a package manager than it is in windows.
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Windows:
double click thingy and hit next until it leaves you alone

Linux:
read the man pages to figure out why this shit won't install. what the hell is xine.conf? upgrade my version of xczerf. spend hours on the net looking for hacked versions of wmv codecs.
 
Cogman

Cogman

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ShawnD1 said:
Windows:
double click thingy and hit next until it leaves you alone

Linux:
read the man pages to figure out why this shit won't install. what the hell is xine.conf? upgrade my version of xczerf. spend hours on the net looking for hacked versions of wmv codecs.
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Whats really sad is that isn't the half of it, installing things like libdecss, fmpeg (a PITA), and mplayer (another PITA to do from source).

Or fighting with Token and gstream plugins only to find out that Token is a POS, and thus the installation of Mplayer is the way to go.

Or the really fun, installing MythTv on a desktop computer... That still gives me nightmares, and I never got it to work correctly.
 
Platypus

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sourceninja said:
Never see that.

But I do know that installing programs on linux won't make you kill your wife. Writing file systems for linux makes you kill your wife.
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Hahaha, I've been secretly hoping someone forks that project and names it MurderFS
 
Gooberlx2

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Cogman said:
Lol, missed that comment the first time. BTW is ReiserFS pretty much dead now?
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Pretty much. I'd guess bits and pieces of the ideas are making their way in to other filesystem projects, like btrfs.

I saw a special about Reiser's murder the other day on "48hours Mystery" or something like that.

I was surprised he confessed...I mean, the way they presented the case made it seem like there was more than enough reasonable doubt with other possible suspects (like the freak who claimed he was a serial killer). Of course, the program must have left a lot out, because the jury didn't agree with me.

He did do it in the end though.
 
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Cogman

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Gooberlx2 said:
Pretty much. I'd guess bits and pieces of the ideas are making their way in to other filesystem projects, like btrfs.

I saw a special about Reiser's murder the other day on "48hours Mystery" or something like that.

I was surprised he confessed...I mean, the way they presented the case made it seem like there was more than enough reasonable doubt with other possible suspects (like the freak who claimed he was a serial killer). Of course, the program must have left a lot out, because the jury didn't agree with me.

He did do it in the end though.
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Yep, I was somewhat shocked when he came out and essentially said "Well, if I'm guilty, then maybe I could get a better sentence by showing you where the body is."

He was an odd duck, but initially I didn't think he was guilty. (People that knew him didn't think he did it either... Well, we missed that one.) I kind of wonder what happened to his kids. Last I heard they were spirited away to Russia with their grandmother.
 
JohnOfSheffield

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The BSD's have to be the easiest ones to install, the manual is extremely explicit for all four of them anticipating every little thing while windows is, "click next and if it doesn't work, tough luck, call support in india and we'll have it fixed within three weeks, tops".

Linux, it depends, Ubuntu is horrible, Debian or Slackware will pretty much tell you exactly what is wrong, Ubuntu will have an error messag stating "error" and an ok box you can click, if they are trying to emulate old Windows versions they are doing a smashing job at it.
 
Chaotic42

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JohnOfSheffield said:
The BSD's have to be the easiest ones to install, the manual is extremely explicit for all four of them anticipating every little thing while windows is, "click next and if it doesn't work, tough luck, call support in india and we'll have it fixed within three weeks, tops".

Linux, it depends, Ubuntu is horrible, Debian or Slackware will pretty much tell you exactly what is wrong, Ubuntu will have an error messag stating "error" and an ok box you can click, if they are trying to emulate old Windows versions they are doing a smashing job at it.
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Have you ever installed Windows 7? I can't imagine how they could make it easier to install.
 
JD50

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Ok, that comic's kinda funny, but it hasn't really been applicable for a few years now.
 
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xSauronx

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ShawnD1 said:
Windows:
double click thingy and hit next until it leaves you alone

Linux:
read the man pages to figure out why this shit won't install. what the hell is xine.conf? upgrade my version of xczerf. spend hours on the net looking for hacked versions of wmv codecs.
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dear god....between synaptic and aptitude, installing apps in a debian based distro is pretty easy. theres also ubuntus app installer which is pretty simple.

lets try windows again: find a program you want, download it from a mirror, hope to god it doesnt have an unmet dependency that you have to go find, then download, then install, so you can re-start the install of your original program, whereupon you hit next until it leaves you alone.

the windows 7 UI is lacking, but sometimes dealing with software in windows is annoying as hell, and other times its easy. i think its a decent OS though.

i prefer linux, but given school, and the lack of a blu ray player in linux, i dont use it like i did a couple of years ago. i prefer the software management in linux (for the most part, i dont know the last time something i wanted didnt work in aptitude) and definitely prefer the UI options linux has.
 
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xSauronx said:
dear god....between synaptic and aptitude, installing apps in a debian based distro is pretty easy. theres also ubuntus app installer which is pretty simple.

lets try windows again: find a program you want, download it from a mirror, hope to god it doesnt have an unmet dependency that you have to go find, then download, then install, so you can re-start the install of your original program, whereupon you hit next until it leaves you alone.

the windows 7 UI is lacking, but sometimes dealing with software in windows is annoying as hell, and other times its easy. i think its a decent OS though.

i prefer linux, but given school, and the lack of a blu ray player in linux, i dont use it like i did a couple of years ago. i prefer the software management in linux (for the most part, i dont know the last time something i wanted didnt work in aptitude) and definitely prefer the UI options linux has.
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When's the last time you had an unmet dependency in Windows? I can't even remember the last time I did.

As mentioned Linux is nicer if the software is in the repos, but it can make life a bitch if it isn't and you need to compile from source.
 
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