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It's not an OS problem, its a network problem, as in, linux doesn't have a network of ISVs who distribute software with 1-click installers. Its certainly possib
by chancho 18y ago
It's not an OS problem, its a network problem, as in, linux doesn't have a network of ISVs who distribute software with 1-click installers. Its certainly possible, making an .rpm or .deb is no harder than making a Windows installer or an OS X app bundle. Look at skype, for instance. Download, double-click, bang.
I think the bigger problem is the availability of 3rd party software for linux to begin with. Installing it is a minor detail. (Here "3rd party" means something outside of your distributions package management system, ie proprietary.)
- theotherjimmy 18y agoBack to the IBM example, I recently had to help install their "distro" (rely just a wrapper of redhat). I had to downgrade from 64bit to 32 bit. rather dissapoining. next the package system was half-broken. It looked as if IBM had not maintained there system after an update of yum or something (there were no package catagorys until after adding a secondary repository). after these small disapointments, I had to reconfigure the Xorg server myself to deal with the graphics card and two moniters. I can't rely fault them with that though. all in all, it was better than there version of windows (slow does not catch all of it) but worse than most systems that I have had to deal with (excluding windows systems). so, yes it seems that the avalability of third party software and the "cryptic" way of installing things has them confused.