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Doesn't it speak rather poorly for free software if installing it is a "massive PITA"?

• __s 9y ago
  Non free software is too. Especially when you start dealing with licensing. Where I work we have people assigned to licensing & other people assigned to actual install. Of course the licensing goes through a third party provider... for which we're a third party provider to our clients
• setr 9y ago
  ALL software does this. If it works, I might as well have let someone else do the waiting. If it doesn't, then It requires a few hours mindlessly running around until you find some stupid flag that was set. Which I might as well leave to somebody else to do. That this is the state of software is a pretty damn good thing, that most of it has become busywork. But its still busywork and I don't why I'd ever want to do it more than a couple times (once I know the general process)
  • wutwutwutwut 9y ago
    I wouldn't consider it busywork. You don't have to sit and wait for the progress bar to move. Start the installation and go for lunch.
    • oblio 9y ago
      That's if the installer is designed well and all the questions are front-loaded. Unfortunately not all installers are... Heck, I think it took Microsoft until Windows Vista to do it for the OS.