Yeah they do. Adding new software is ridiculously easy with Linux - although it also helps that it’s free.
First, let me admit that I’ve been spoiled by the linux way, I’m incredibly lazy now because of it.
However, this can only be a rule of thumb. The linux way isn’t as completely unified as the author would have you believe. But it is immensely more unified than the windows way is.
Example of the disunification: Yum, Apt, Yast, Redcarpet, up2date, synaptic......... Now granted, some of these are front ends, some are back ends. Which complicates things even more.......... somewhat.
Now, an example of the unification:
I go to yum and type update, I get my update for firefox(Browser) gimp(graphics) openoffice, kaffeine(media player) bzflag(game) freeciv(another game) plus my security updates plus my new feature updates plus updates for everything else.
All with one single action.
It would take me 10-30 minutes to round up all of that stuff from various websites and initiate the downloads. It’s not incredibly hard mind you, but as I said I’m spoiled. :-)
Boy, I think you could become rich and famous (well, famous anyhow) if you’d write a tutorial on how to add stuff to Linux. Everyone I know who tries ends up downloading something to somewhere, and that’s the end of it. I struggle with it too, and the prevailing attitude on Linux sites is “figure it out, dumbass, you’re not in Windows-land any more”.
Just sayin. It’s not easy for folks I’ve talked to who have tried one of the Linux distros, then gave up in frustration.
windows - why bother updating that 20th century os?
sumitted from a salvaged IBM 500mhz thinkpad with
debris linux