Linux is for nerds

[thereject]

and it always will be until the interface and system management are streamlined to a point where installing/updating/upgrading are reasonable endeavors rather than epic feats. Believe it or not, the general public doesn't care about how their refrigerator works, they just want their yogurt to be cold. They don't want to have to recompile the engine

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[thereject]

Not daunting, but way more effort than it needed to be. Lunix nerds can't ever do things the easy way.

ugh

[aidian]

A Software Development Kit means that you want to Develop Software (no kidding, huh?), and not everybody does that. If you're a developer, either you should already understand what's happening, or you -need- to read the manual. The development process does not happen by magic, it happens by the application of knowledge. If you don't even understand the SDK, how do you hope to write software with it?

If we're going to make analogies, what you want sounds more like buying a new car and deciding you want to put a turbocharger on it without knowing anything about cars or engines, and being shocked that you need an instruction manual to do it.

Go play clicky-clicky with MacOS or something if you're going to whine like this. It's really unbecoming of you.

Re: ugh

[thereject]

I'm not developing anything, I was setting up an OpenNMS server and it requires an SDK or two to run. It was damned frustrating because it wasn't hard, it was just time consuming because so much of it could have been automated but wasn't.

Re: ugh

[aidian]

Dude, wanting to run network management software versus software development doesn't really help your case; particularly if you're in a business environment. If it's your job to install a fairly big package like that, you should understand how software works; if not, a manual shouldn't make you cry. If it does, then you're the wrong person to be installing it. Find a software engineer

Re: ugh

[thereject]

Oh I got it together. It takes a lot more than a poorly written installation guide to put me off. My point was that the majority of people don't want to have to involve a software engineer for something that could be quick and easy. Linux has powerful and flexible down, now if people can start working on the quick and easy then maybe some serious public adoption of it will come about.

[thought1]

Tried Ubuntu? I've found it to be the only one worth spending my (extremely limited) time on. (:

Of course, that says nothing for apps outside of the packaged ones, but then even the packaged ones for Ubuntu tend to be targetted at a lower-maintenance crowd.