re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 11:18 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3942 messages posted) Steve wrote: |Reading the info at that link would probably stop more Windows users |from trying Linux [than] anything else.........:) Could be. OTOH, if someone actually showed that newbie the POWER of apt-get and how it can fetch, install, AND update using just ONE command line --completely unattended after the initial command is given-- THEN the n00b might be more impressed. If it was done for EIGHT application programs using just ONE command then I think *ANY* Windoze user would be pretty impressed. ...and do I really need to mention that all 8 of those are gratis and libre? What's TOTALLY cool is when you turn Ubuntu into a *custom* version of Kubuntu by doing a cut & paste of a really long command line. (You CAN get *the standard KDE Desktop* install with a really simple command, BUT a lot of folks think there a better way to get it than using that and/or better than using a Kubuntu install CD because a lot of the KDE-based stuff never gets used by Joe Average.) apt-get can also be used to UNinstall stuff. The proprietary M$ C-sharp/dotNet/Silverlight stuff that comes with more recent M$ OSes has a Free Software (oh, the irony) equivalent called Mono. Mono is installed by default in some recent distros and a lot of Free Software advocates are NOT happy about that. Luckily, apt-get can dump all of that with a single command. ...and any of this _can_ be done under Linux with a click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click... process if you **really** want to do it the tedious Windoze way --but even then, after issuing the directive Linux still does all 3 parts of the job without having to babysit it any more. In short, I think most Windoze users would be stoked seeing apt-get in action when compared to the anemic Add/Remove Programs thing in Windoze. Written in response to: re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (Steve: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm) Responses to this message: re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (Steve: Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 12:09 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (gewg_: Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 3:45 pm) re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (Arminius: Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 5:14 pm) re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (gewg_: Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 11:26 pm) re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (Steve: Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 7:36 pm) re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (gewg_: Wed, Aug 19, 2009, 11:18 pm) re: Dontcha wish Windoze had something like this? (Steve: Thu, Aug 20, 2009, 12:09 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum