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this place sucks ass
suselinux:
The Gimp isn't as advanced as Photoshop, but Codeweavers Crossover office fixes that
allows you to use Macromedia, Adobe, and MS office natively well almost natively on Linux
Crossover Office is basically a front end to a tweaked version of wine, but it actually works, and is SOOOO easy to use, a friend of mine bought it to use MS Office in Linux for work projects
all you do is open CXOffice setup, click "install from" and find your .exe in a filesystem explorer (just like explorer infact) click it and then install it exactly the same way you would in Windows.
ITS REALLY EASY
as for building from source being hard
if you can spell the words configure, make and install, you've basically got it figured out!
Laukev7:
As opposed to using them natively on the Mac OS? Just use a Mac, problem solved, much simpler. No need to encourage Microsoft by buying software running on Windows platforms.
psyjax:
quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
ITS REALLY EASY
as for building from source being hard
if you can spell the words configure, make and install, you've basically got it figured out!
--- End quote ---
Ok, heres a good one then....
You install your linux distro, but during the configure process you set your resolution out of scan range by accident.
Now, what does a compleat computer newb do when his screen boots up blank?
Here is another one:
In other OS's I double click and install. If your a newb, you need to boot up a terminal (learn a few comands)
cd to your directory
ls-1 to see whats in it
su to root
./configure
make install
install
Now, these archaic commands are a far cry from double click and done. Also, what happens if durink the make process, the Terminal starts scrolling by a huge list of errors due to dependancy issues etc.
Another OS will never have these issues. "But Psyjax! RPM's show nice dialogue boxes explaining what you need!", yes, so now I have a dialogue box telling me I have 10 crypticaly named librarys I need to scour the net for and install. And a common user should know this, or have to deal with this because?
Not to mention poor modem users.
Then their application is finally instaled via RPM. Phew! Let me go use it.... where is it???
Now other OS's put it where you want it, or an Applications folder, and maybe even provide a nifty little icon. In linux, more often than not however, the user has to venture behind /Home/user
to the dreaded 3 letter hell!
Hmmm... is it in /etc, etc/var... no not there. Hmmm likely in the /usr directory... hmmm is it /usr/local or usr/bin ... hmmm
Ahhh!! it must be in her- What the!!! Jezus fucking christ! There have got to be like 8000 porgrams in this folder! And suddenly it occurs to you.... "WHAT THE HELL IS THE BINDARY NAMED!!!!"
Ok.... so, it's taken me quite a bit to learn the ins and outs, and get used to the systems structure. But how on earth, could I sit my grandma down infront of this machine and say: "Use it, you can figure it out!"
Pissed_Macman:
I couldn't figure out how to fucking download the damned thing!
Laukev7:
Easy to compile?
root@localhost# configure /home/laukev7/xcheapcloneofsomepopulargame
blah blah blah
error: liballegro 1.2.1 detected. Needs liballegro 1.2.2. Stop.
root@localhost# configure /home/laukev7/liballegro
error: depends on someotherlibrary 2.3.4. Stop.
root@localhost# configure /home/laukev7/someotherapp
blahblahblah again
error: depends on allegro 1.2.2. Stop.
...
root@localhost# configure && make /home/laukev7/xgamethatdoesnotdependonallegro
blah -o gnustuff /blah/blah/ copy -mess /usr/stuff
blah blah blah
error 1 could not link blahblahblah
exits directory /blah/blah/blah
error 2
error
root@localhost# /home/laukev7/xsomeotherappthatisalmostasbuggyasthelastonebutstillallowsyoutocompileit
segmentation fault
[ November 18, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]
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