Erik S

"And how did you end up in synaptic with the package you needed to install positioned right under your mouse cursor?" - Erik S

"How is adding addition repositories easier (for the user) than downloading a single file from a website and then running it?" - Erik S

"Yes, you can always trust engineers to come up with a system that will break in ways they failed to imagine, or at least care about, when put in front of actual users. Idiots." - Erik S

"Yes, but is that really any better?" - Erik S

"You seem to be assuming here that all the software a usercould ever want is has been packaged for their distribution. That isn't even remotely true now. For example, I just installed Ubuntu Karmic. I decided to install postgres 8.4; it has been out for a few months and if you try and install 8.3 on Karmic, it warns you that they are obsolete. Oh, but wait, PostGIS, which isn't exactly an obscure postgres add-on, has only been packaged for 8.3. In an ideal world that would never happen, right? Maybe, but only if your ideal world for Linux is one where everyone is using the latest version or so of one or two distros. Otherwise, software authors are going to want easier ways (for both themselves, and their users) of distributing Linux software that reaches a large userbase without tying them to the ditributions release cycle. It should be as easy to download, install, run, and then uninstall a Linux app as it is for most Mac apps. I am not arguing that FatELF was the best, or even a very..." - Erik S

"Confirmation bias?" - Erik S

This sucks. I hate "big content" - Erik S