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Originally Posted by Gareth
I'd agree with ATI's drivers being very sucky though... but that's a problem with ATI not with Linux  |
Sorry, have to disagree mate. Installing almost anything requires trawling through readmes and copy/pasting endless commands into terminal. And if it doesn't work, its endless reading mans, googling and trawling through forums and blogs blindly copying various admin commands some complete stranger has wrote. If you want a recent example from myself, after installing XGL and Beryl (which took bloody ages), the shutdown button disappeared. After more googling and reading, its apparently to do with Beryl not being granted admin rights which is silly. Again, its pasting more code from strangers, which could do anything. Massive leap of faith.
Even with Ubuntu, RPMs still have to be converted and installed, again more commands through terminal. Its great it has many apps preconfigured, but if you do want one that isn't, its much, much more harder work. I remember installing my wireless adaptor on Mandrake, which took a complete evening of googling and trying before I eventually got ndiswrapper to work.
Linux is getting better, but its still got a long way to go. Until all distros universally support RPMs, and true point and click install, it will always be behind Windows on user friendliness.