On 12.10.2014 г. 19:04, Tim Tassonis wrote:

On 10/11/2014 12:12 PM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:

On 22.9.2014 г. 18:34, Kernc wrote:

     If I'm going to distro-hop, why not Windows? A working desktop, if
     nothing else.

Have fun, then. Just fixed a few Windows Machines and again knew one
reason to never, ever move to windows: The real-life requirement to
install a third-party commercial virus scanner eating up half of my
computer's resources just to be able to survive a few days on this
platform. Never in my life will i move to that horrible world.

Very true. I never praised Win~1 in the first place, and the lack of package manager is it's main system fault until W8. It'll take many years to see all applications migrate to Windows Store, and to have running random code from Internet blocked forever.

With the Linux distributions, the situation quite different, but not any better. You can (a) use the distribution packages only, and put up with things like K4, G3 and systemd; (b) compile packages from source, which is time consuming, and due to dependencies, you need to compile more and more of them; (c) block the unwanted updates - but again, due to dependencies, you have to block more and more. For a regular user, the only choice is (a), or install once and never update anything. Linux praises itself as a "free" operating system, but I can hardly imagine more totalitarian installation approach.

I used mainly distribution packages, of course, with some things compiled, some blocked, and even a 3rd party .deb or two, but managing the whole thing became too time consuming. As much as I hate them, the antivirus scanners at least work automatically.

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E-gards: Jimmy
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