re: Constant NSIS installer errors
Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
kamusician wrote:
|[...]spending some time in the registry removing approx. 50 old/unused keys
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8-( Linux doesn't have anything like the Windoze Registry to break.
Configuration in Linux isn't done via
a binary blob which is as brittle as a beer bottle prop
and that requires some proprietary tool to monkey with it
(and requires Windoze AND ITS GUI to be running to do that).
When Linux has problems, it degrades MUCH more gracefully
and can be tweaked with any old command-line text editor.
|left over from what was [supposed] to be uninstalled anti-virus software
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...and Linux has an actual security model and doesn't require that AV nonsense.
When Windoze users see a Linux package manager in action, their jaws drop.
M$ doesn't have anything like them.
http://google.com/search?q=define:Synaptic-package-manager
Imagine being able to select, download, install, and update an app
with basically 1 motion: tell Synaptic what you want and turn it loose).
Now imagine not having to quit everything else you're doing in order to do that
--you can actually USE a Linux computer while it's installing stuff.
...and besides not having to babysit installs,
you don't (short of a new kernel) have to reboot
--much less reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot.
...and imagine an uninstaller that actually completes that task.
(The image in my mind right now is a Windoze system
with 6 copies of MFC42.DLL scattered all over its drive.)
OTOH, when you use your Linux package manager to uninstall something,
it doesn't leave little turds everywhere.
First, Linux has a directory structure model that strictly defines where stuff goes;
second, a Linux package manager only installs a single copy of a dependency;
third, when that dependency isn't needed any more
(all apps needing it are uninstalled), it also removes ALL the unneeded cruft.
|Enjoyed reading some of the DefectiveByDesign articles
|and I'm naturally more disgusted with M$ than ever.
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The more you learn about Unix (around since 1969) and Linux (around since 1991),
the more you realize what a bunch of bozos Redmond is:
Working models of how to do things right already existed--but Micros~1 ignored them.
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