Is Linux really worth the time I’m wasting on it?
Publicado em , por macaco
Man am I pissed today! I’m this close to simply saying: Linux sucks I want it deleted from my computer asap.
I mean… it is SO frustrating!!!!
I hate Windows, but look… the other day I wanted to get a new version of a newsreader I love, called FreeAgent. I looked for it and found it, downloaded it and ran the intalation prog. The install detected my older 16-bit version and asked me if I wanted the replace it while keeping the data, I said yes, intstallation proceeded and I was using it in 5 minutes.
Today I wanted to get a news program for Linux that allowed me to decode binary attachments with the same ease that the Agent does. So I go to freshmeat.net and seacrh for newsreaders, sure enough an incomprehensible list of software apears… everything is called Kwmem or Xtrkuo or asnJXhs… there’s no understanding or even memorising the name of ANY of these programs.
OK, so I found one that seemed interesting and I downloaded it. I read the README and then the INSTALL file. I follow the clear instructions one by one and it doesn’t work. There’s an error saying I’m missing Qt. “Sure”, I think… if this was Windows I could be missing, say, Direct X to play a game or VB runtimes to run some shitty program.
I go looking for Qt, find it and download it. So now I have to install Qt… but to do that I have to create either a .profile or a .login file, according to whichever shell I’m using (which, I haven’t the slightest clue), in my home directory… OK, so I create BOTH files, in my /home directory… did it work? No, of course not.
So, in the space of half an hour, including download I was up and running FreeAgent for windows, and in the space of 3 and a half hours, including two downloads I was runnning nothing on Linux.
Plus, this isn’t the first time! I tried to install ICQ… forget it… and other stuff, even really really simple stuff, but it’s always a hel of a mess… it took me over two weeks to get to connect to the internet.
I’m starting to wonder: WHAT’S THE BLOODY POINT?!?!
Does windows crahs? Yes! Is it a security black hole? yes! Does it suck in general and have stupid features? Absolutely. But it runs, it installs programs and runs them… and I don’t need a computer science degree to do it.
