Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

santosh wrote:
> jacob navia wrote:
> 
>> santosh wrote:
>>> Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Yes.  Ubuntu is friggin' weird.  Totally nuts in my view.
>>>> It's friggin' Windows calling itself Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Obvious advice: Get yourself a real distro.
>>> Yes, Slackware obviously.
>>>
>>>> ObParanoia: It is scary that Ubuntu seems to be getting the
>>>> mindshare
>>>> these days.  Maybe it is an MS plot...
>>> Deplorable indeed. I wonder why everyone doesn't build their own
>>> Linux system like Gerard Beekmans. That's how real hackers do it!
>>>
>> Do you have a recommendation? (URL, best way to download it, etc?)
>> thanks
> 
> Sure:
> 
> <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/>
> 
> but I doubt you'll like this when Ubuntu is apparently too difficult for
> you.
> 

Of course it is not "difficult", and I have been doing Unix since
1987... I can solve all those problems if I wanted to, but the point
is that now it just bores me, still in 2008 fiddling around with the
X config files, chasing drivers, installing this and that, fixing the
bugs...

What bothers me more is that the old versions of linux did not have
this kind of problems that often, and that now the point is not
to make a simpler system for everyone, but just to make server
side software that pleases the people that finance linux (IBM,
RedHat, and some others) but doesn't care at all of the normal user.

Microsoft software is much more user friendly not because they
have a BIG BUDGET, but because they care about the end user a
bit more... Unix has this problematic attitude of relying in the
"systems administrator", and just being unfriendly for no reason.

Personally I have tried to make a system that it is easy to use.
lcc-win tries (not always with success) to be easy to use, easy to
install, without adding features without need.

Microsoft had a different attitude towards the end user as the unix
people. Unix was for the "higher ups"... Microsoft choose to cater
the end user...

It was a strategic mistake from the Unix guys, and linux has taken that
wrong tradition, that is why it bothers me.

I thought that they would try to make what Steve jobs did: make
unix user friendly.

No, they choose to follow the old unix path: just suppose there is
a "system administrator" and do not care about the end user.

And that is why linux doesn't get any more market share.

The reaction from many people here is so telling:

"You screwed your installation". Always the fault of badly designed
software is in the end user!

I downloaded the ubuntu software, burned it into a DVD and followed
the instructions. Nothing else.

Gnome is not installed by default. Sorry. Nor KDE, nor nothing.

When it reboots after the first installation it shows you a
"login"
prompt, that is all. You have to call "aptitude" to install the
rest.

And after a while I know "aptitude", its quirks, etc.

But would my wife know how to use that?

And sorry, mp3 are not recognized by default because mp3 is NOT
an open format for music. OGG is, but mp3 is not. And the debian
based Ubuntu has the same "political" line of boycotting the formats
that are propietary or somehow not to the latest taste of GNU;



-- 
jacob navia
jacob at jacob point remcomp point fr
logiciels/informatique
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32