On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:38:03 +0100, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net>
wrote:
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
[SNIP]
To install Firefox and other software a Windows 8 user only needs to
launch the Windows browser, google for Firefox and then to click a
button to install it.
You might say on Linux, e.g. on Debian the user only needs to launch
Synaptic, to search for Firefox and to click some buttons, but to do
this, the user needs to be aware that there is an application called
Synaptic. The user perhaps won't understand that Synaptic won't find
Firefox, just some obscure Iceweasel.
At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw.
It presumes that all software is always available in a repository (be it
FOSS/proprietary, trusted/untrusted, whatever distinction).
Yesterday I found a program (in beta) whose functional writeup was
interesting. In the latest revision a deb package was added to the
previously available formats. I downloaded the package with my Windows
machine (it was available at the instant). I now have a deb package on a
flash drive which Debian can read but has no built-in convenient method
to install.
IIRC it was (perhaps is) possible to get Suse packages from the Internet
and to install them with a single click.
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