Being a Linux-only user for many years now, I don’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
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
Read the rest of the article<\/a> to put the quote in context.\u00a0 Read comments to the Slashdot story<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Being a Linux-only user for many years now, I don’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 … Continue reading To all those who complain of Linux being hard to use<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t