Posted on 03/07/2006 7:08:01 AM PST by N3WBI3
BTW, how do you know? Have you ever tried to install commercial software on Linux? I have, and it's never been complicated.
What examples of commercial software were you referring to specifically?
Battlefield 2, or Silent Hunter 3
Battlefield 2, or Silent Hunter 3
Hey. Brain dead!
Synaptic? No command line? Sound familiar? Go ahead and tell me how many times I need to say it to make you understand, so I can go ahead and say it that many times.
Are we having trouble remembering what was said again?
One one-time click to install Cedega, and then just run the games like you would under Windows.
I do that a lot less than I used to, but you perfectly describe many an evening for me.
Ha ha! Knew this was coming! So it's Linux's fault that it's hard to install Windows apps on it?
You're really serious, aren't you? In order to show how difficult Linux installs are, you choose Windows apps? You are hilarious. Proves my point...installing Linux software is easy. If it weren't, you'd not have to throw in the whole variable of cross-platform software. Nice job. Regardless, I'll play along. If you don't mind shilling out a couple bucks, it's not that hard.
Purchase and download the Cedega Debian package from transgaming.org to your desktop and drag and drop it into KPackage. Enter password, watch package be installed automatically.
Browse to your Battlefield 2 CD, right click the setup file, choose "Open with...". In the blank, type winex, check "Remember" and hit OK. Follow directions. Remove Battlefield 2 CD. Put in Silent Hunter. Click on setup file. Follow directions. You're done.
Your turn. Since you chose Windows apps to prove how hard it was to install software in Linux, let's see if you can tell me how to install XMMS in Windows in two paragraphs or less.
Of course, you can't, and you'll ignore this post like you always do when you're pushed in the corner, and you'll change the subject, or try to make it seem like the two paragraphs above are rocket science beyond your feeble capabilities. Cheap tactic, I must say, but typical Turkey through and through.
Read this user's problems getting Silent Hunter III to install in Windows...
"The documentation that ships with Silent Hunter 3 is quite lacking. Additionally, over time players have shared many insights that are worth repeating."
So, it's poorly documented....
"I walked through installation, but was disappointed to find I was required to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (I’m still happy with 5) and Windows Media Player 9 for the documentation and ingame videos, respectively. I imagine Acrobat 7 is not really necessary, but I didn’t mess with it. The installation for WMP 9 failed because I do not have IE 6 installed, or so the Silent Hunter III installation claimed. I later installed WMP 9 manually and IE 6 was not necessary."
...and has dependency problems...
Hmmm...interesting!!!
Links for the above:
http://edseek.com/archives/2005/05/04/silent-hunter-iii-survival-guide/
http://edseek.com/archives/2005/03/31/silent-hunter-iii/
Well, it might be because I just got Mepis 3.4, and I always have to go through and see what all the new apps do. The other night, I spent hours reorganizing my music collection with Amarok. Also, as I said, have done a lot of tweaking on the GUI with kbfx and mtaskbar, which both make things look very cool. And, I'm starting to play around with Kino a little to edit videos. There's enough software there to keep me busy for months.
Thought it looked neat--and appropriate for a Linux desktop...
It would also be appropriate for my screen name...
Is what you said. But when I provide the names of 2 popular commercial products, you break down in tears. Too bad, so sad.
Haha! Keep the laughs coming!
Let me explain what just happened, because you obviously don't understand. No one broke down, Turkey...I pointed out the stupid flaw in your apples to oranges comparison, then went on to blow your feeble contention out of the water, playing by your rules and beating you. Of course, you're not bright enough to realize what just happened.
But I did notice that you ignored my request for instructions to run XMMS under Windows XP. Why's that?
So you have to subscribe to Cedega, and pay a monthly surcharge back to them just to run your software? Why not just buy a decent O/S to begin with, and run everything in it's native mode? Makes too much sense?
Cedega costs a minimum of $15. No need to renew, as the software will not break.
Software run under Cedega typically runs much faster than the same software running under Windows.
"So you have to subscribe to Cedega, and pay a monthly surcharge back to them just to run your software?"
You're the one who, earlier on this thread, was condemning me for not paying for my software, saying I "sold out capitalism". Why the sudden change of heart?
"Why not just buy a decent O/S to begin with, and run everything in it's native mode? "
Oh, yeah, like the fellow did in post 109? It ran GREAT in native mode...after he resolved all his dependencies and added third party resource managers and the like. Moron.
"Makes too much sense?"
Nothing you say makes too much sense.
XMMS? Why in the world would I want to slow my computer down with that junk?
Quit hiding from the discussion, that being your claim Linux is easy to use, while I continue to prove it's not, whether it be a beginner being unable to find proper install procedures, to Linux vendors themselves being unable to convert their own systems. "Linux" is all one big confusing mess. Just as Michael Dell keeps saying, for years now.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1935309,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
"People are always asking us to support Linux on the desktop, but the question is, 'Which Linux are you talking about?'" Dell asked.
"If we say we like Ubuntu, then people will say we picked the wrong one. If we say we like and support Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat and Xandros, then someone would ask us, 'Why don't you support Mandriva?'
"It's not that there are too many Linux desktop distributions," Dell said, "it's that they're all different, they all have supporters and none of them can claim a majority of the market.
"If you look at DistroWatch, you'll see zillions of these distributions. Which one should we do?"
XMMS under Windows XP? Hello?
HA HA, sure it does! Why wouldn't it, since it would be running natively! /IGNORANCE
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