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Re: Emacs vista build failures
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs vista build failures |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:40:58 -0400 |
> >> Since GNU/Linux works for so many others, I suspect there was
> >> a problem in installation. The best way to solve them is to
> >> ask an expert to do it for you.
> > I didn't need an expert for Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, or
> > Vista. I spent 30 years as a computer programmer with a fair
> > amount of unix experience. I think I should be able to do a
> > simple install.
> As mentioned, GNU/Linux works for so many others that it's
> probably an easily solvable problem.
GNU/Linux _works_ fantastically, but that's not what's under discussion.
_GETTING_ a G/L system working is the issue, and that's best
described as a slog, or a nightmare. There are any number of blogs
which describe how "you just insert the DVD, and 2 hours later
you've got a complete working system". I've never met anybody in
real life who's had that experience.
Sorry, but I have no clue what you are talking about. I know of no
GNU/Linux system that takes 2 hours to install and then 2 days or more
to get usable... I recently reinstalled gNewSense and the
installation took me about 5 minutes, excluding the time it takes to
copy data from a CD-ROM to a HDD. But I know that it does take over a
full day to install Windows XP, it is something I sadly do once every
other week.
Getting a printer working was trivial as well, I did not even need to
specify the driver.
What you say was true some 10 years ago, I still recall having to hand
edit /etc/printcap, write my own filtering rules! and write four
different floppies just to be able to boot a GNU/Linux system that
didn't even have a compiler included. But this has not been the case
for the past 5+ years, or even close.
GNU/Linux these days is _far_ easier to install than Windows XP or Vista...
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