{"id":12499,"date":"2010-04-26T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12499"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:17:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T11:17:26","slug":"to-all-those-who-complain-of-linux-being-hard-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/26\/to-all-those-who-complain-of-linux-being-hard-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"To all those who complain of Linux being hard to use"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Being a Linux-only user for many years now, I don&#8217;t even keep up on the never-ending flame wars of Windows vs. Linux.\u00a0 But sometimes a sentence or a paragraph would catch my attention in a totally unrelated article.\u00a0 Here is something that I think a lot of people will find surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s an awful lot to be said about the simplicity and usefulness of installing software on Mac or Linux. In the latter case, you simply drag a file to your Applications folder, and you\u2019re done. Linux package managers do all the heavy lifting without any user intervention. If a Linux program requires additional libraries, the package manager finds them and installs them automatically. In both instances, I can install new applications in a fraction of the time it takes to install something on Windows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/04\/22\/i-hate-computers-confessions-of-a-sysadmin\/\">the rest of the article<\/a> to put the quote in context.\u00a0 Read comments to the <a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/04\/23\/2034206\/Confessions-of-a-SysAdmin\">Slashdot story<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Being a Linux-only user for many years now, I don&#8217;t even keep up on the never-ending flame wars of Windows vs. Linux.\u00a0 But sometimes a sentence or a paragraph would catch my attention in a totally unrelated article.\u00a0 Here is something that I think a lot of people will find surprising: There\u2019s an awful lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/26\/to-all-those-who-complain-of-linux-being-hard-to-use\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To all those who complain of Linux being hard to use<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,62],"tags":[1158],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-technology","tag-user-interfaces"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22936,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/20\/nightrain-php-packager-for-native-applications-on-windows-linux-and-mac-os\/","url_meta":{"origin":12499,"position":0},"title":"nightrain &#8211; PHP packager for native applications on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 20, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"PHP Nightrain is a packager written in Python for the PHP Programming Language. 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