Re: [ossig] Full page Microsoft FUD ad in the Star today

[Nur Hussein <nhussein@xxxxxxxxx>]

> new utility / game under windows:
> 1. search for software using google / download.com
> 2. download software
> 3. double click the download to install software

3.1 Click "I agree" on the EULA
3.2 Click next, next, next...
3.3 Wait 10,000,000 years for it to grind all 200 megabytes of files
into HorriblySlowFileSystem
3.4 Reboot
3.5 Configure your new software
3.6 Reboot again
3.7 Software obnoxiously places itself in the Start Menu, Desktop and
System Tray
3.8 Remove the unwanted entries on the Desktop and System Tray
3.9 Reboot 
3.10 Software asks you to register, click ignore
3.11 Registration window doesn't go away. Fill out your name and email
so they can sell it to people who spam you for fake college degrees
3.12 Reboot one more time for good measure

> 4. periodically open the software to check for updates

Compare this with Linux packages which take just a second to install:

1. Download package
2. Install it with apt/rpm/pkgtool, and the package starts installing
3. You blink, missing the entire progress bar thingy.
4. There is no step 4. Heck there really isn't a step 3 either.

Granted there might be dependencies, but in modern times apt or yum or
portage takes care of that (if you use gentoo step 3 might take a few
more blinks). I've been using Slackware for years, which doesn't take
of dependencies *at all*, and yet it's seldom where dependencies is
even a problem. I also like how all *nix programs expect a multiuser
OS, and stores preferences in your home directory. Thus, if you ever
need to restore your system from backup, you automatically preserve
your data and program preferences (unlike Windows where you either
have to hunt down the directories where the prefs are, or just zap it
all and reconfigure).

-= Nur Hussein =-



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