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a) Even my grandparents worked out how to find and install k-lite codec pack. b) No there is just no value in it. 99% of PCs come with it preinstalled. Why wou
by meaty 14y ago
a) Even my grandparents worked out how to find and install k-lite codec pack.
b) No there is just no value in it. 99% of PCs come with it preinstalled. Why would they bother to target a few Linux users.
d) Yes there is. Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Installer - yes a fully transactional installation system. If you can work out which things not to put your penis in, then you can work out which web sites are trying to rip you off. Oh and they even bother to sign official packages and warn you if it looks dodgy.
- Justsignedup 14y agoa) good for them, that's a sample of 1. b) I cannot agree more. However this is still a great parody as to the fact that getting even a sniff of windows is an effort in itself if you didn't have it installed. d) Sorry, a unzip with rollback capabilities and upgrade tools. Still not close to apt / homebrew / etc. Look if windows installer didn't have the ability to say that MS Visual C++ distribution is a requirement for running this software, it would not be worth the space it takes on ur hard drive. In any case. Let's do one with a linux user trying to install Mac OSX... Fast one - Looks like I need to shell out 1000 dollars on a macbook air because there's no way to even try it out on my laptop without spending days making a "hackintosh"
- BHSPitMonkey 14y ago> - Looks like I need to shell out 1000 dollars on a macbook air because there's no way to even try it out on my laptop without spending days making a "hackintosh" To be fair, setting up a "hackintosh" install isn't really any harder than setting up Gentoo or Arch. It's not a very relevant comparison though; Unlike with Windows or Linux, the makers of OS X explicitly do not want people installing their OS on "PC" hardware.