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re: Tell me why linux wouldn't work for a large majority of residential users
Posted on 8/15/14 at 9:14 am to gmrkr5
Posted on 8/15/14 at 9:14 am to gmrkr5
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you sure?
Very much so. Granted my situation is a bit different than the set up we're talking about for home consumers, but anything that needs to be done manually on a less than current system where you can't just use these software repositories to get the latest versions of a program, you are often stumbling around in the dark because the manual/command line side of Linux is populated by the type of people that came up with the RTFM acronym and would rather point you to a thick book they had to read to find the answer than share the answer with you. I once had to update a mysql installation manually and the only place I found the command line help I needed was in the comments on a less than helpful article on the subject. I think the GUI side of Linux is probably better, I know I've found plenty of soluitons for cPanel related issues, but anything old school command line relies on a population that would rather give you a manual on how to survive in the wilderness than an answer on how to catch fish.
Posted on 8/15/14 at 9:21 am to TigerinATL
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Very much so. Granted my situation is a bit different than the set up we're talking about for home consumers, but anything that needs to be done manually on a less than current system where you can't just use these software repositories to get the latest versions of a program, you are often stumbling around in the dark because the manual/command line side of Linux is populated by the type of people that came up with the RTFM acronym and would rather point you to a thick book they had to read to find the answer than share the answer with you. I once had to update a mysql installation manually and the only place I found the command line help I needed was in the comments on a less than helpful article on the subject. I think the GUI side of Linux is probably better, I know I've found plenty of soluitons for cPanel related issues, but anything old school command line relies on a population that would rather give you a manual on how to survive in the wilderness than an answer on how to catch fish.
I've been working with Linux for around 10 years and hold certifications on the subject. What your saying simply isnt true. With about a 5 word goggle search I can find a step by step tutorial on how to add new repo to a yum config on any distro that uses yum. Same for apt-get for ubuntu and ever portage for gentoo.
there arent alot of people out there that need to compile their own applications, but there are just as many how-tos and step by steps for the ones you do. your Google-foo is weak
This post was edited on 8/15/14 at 9:24 am
Posted on 8/15/14 at 9:38 am to TigerinATL
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you are often stumbling around in the dark because the manual/command line side of Linux is populated by the type of people that came up with the RTFM acronym and would rather point you to a thick book they had to read to find the answer than share the answer with you.
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anything old school command line relies on a population that would rather give you a manual on how to survive in the wilderness than an answer on how to catch fish.
This is a really, really old criticism of the Linux community, and it's really not like that anymore. Hasn't been for over a decade.
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