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Unix is very easy if you take time to learn it. Most things behave the same way.

• knieveltech 15y ago
  Demonstrably untrue based on two and a half decades of experience. At least chasing lib dependencies for 18 hours during the config/make/make install process is mostly a thing of the past.
  • ez77 15y ago
    Do you have any broad advice on easing the config/make/make install process?
    • thmcmahon 15y ago
      apt-get install
      • sagarun 15y ago
        or yum install, Where yum automatically resolves the dependencies for you. No more make && make install
        • metabrew 15y ago
          Nothing to do.
• Leon 15y ago
  You just proved the authors point.
• sbierwagen 15y ago
  Most things behave the same way. Ha ha. You jest. bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls bar bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls bar text.txt bbot@bbot:~/foo$ mv bar baz bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls baz bbot@bbot:~/foo$ cp baz bar cp: omitting directory `baz' bbot@bbot:~/foo$ ls baz There are hundreds of things like this. dd's hilarious syntax. The spotty usage of --help. Inconsistent behavior when you invoke a command with no arguments. The dazzling array of contradictory option flags for ls. Everything about vi. Etc etc etc.
  • silentbicycle 15y ago
    He said "Unix", not "Linux".
    • regularfry 15y ago
      I'm confused. Which of these don't apply?