linux = impossible? (no offense meant!)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 14 20:12:08 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:19:15AM -0500, ln @post.com wrote:
> Thought you would all get a chuckle (I hope) from this e-mail my teenage (grade 12) son sent me.  Obviously he has a love-hate relationship with linux.
> 
> But, on the serious side, WHY is it so difficult to install anything on linux?  Can't we make installing software as easy as it is on Windows?

No installer on windows has EVER matches: apt-get install nameofpackage

Now why doesn't all software come open source, and packaged up in Debian
is a better question. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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