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The Biggest Problem - Application Installation

Average: 5 (6 votes)

Hello all,

I am a Linux noob, sort of. I have distro hopped for several months and I have tried almost every Ubuntu distro, PClinuxOS, Debian, Puppy (I like this one for silly stuff) and several others. I would like to share some of my horror stories with you. I truly hope I am missing something, but if not, this story will be quite typical of why so many users won't/can't make the switch to Linux.

versions, platforms and Dependencies

Average: 5 (1 vote)

The Problem:
A lot of programs in linux are version or platform specific. This requires the user to find a version that runs on their PC. Thrown in are dependencies, peices of other software that sometimes take hours to find, tweak and install. If you can't find any of these and don't know programing TOUGH LUCK!

This might be ok for some people but the average user dosn't want to know how it works they just want it to work. (like a car)

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