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| From | Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease |
| Date | 2025-03-14 21:25 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vr26s7$23hho$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vqvk66$3v7rr$1@dont-email.me> <UrVAP.87687$bYQ4.3285@fx41.iad> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:39:16 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 3/13/25 17:54, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >> Do you think maybe the entire Windows ecosystem is fundamentally >> hostile to open-source software? > > Otherwise, I have to compile from source with no guarantee that it > will work or integrate into the system as expected. Building from source tends to be more reliable (and requires fewer steps) on Linux than Windows. There is a guy on comp.lang.c, a Windows fanatic, who regularly moans about this, as though it’s the fault of the developers of Open Source. > In this respect, Windows is much better since I only have to look for an > executable to load the software, and I can be sure that it will work. That’s what Linux package repos do: they provide that “executable” (or library dependency or whatever). Consider that a major distro like Debian includes something like 50,000 packages in its official repo: where are you going to find a selection of prebuilt open-source Windows executables that large? It doesn’t exist.
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Death By Auto-Immune Disease Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-13 21:54 +0000
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-13 20:49 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-03-14 10:36 +0000
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-14 08:39 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-03-14 09:42 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-14 10:53 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-14 21:26 +0000
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-14 21:25 +0000
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-03-15 00:57 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2025-03-15 08:22 -0400
Re: Death By Auto-Immune Disease Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-15 21:50 +0000
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