On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:22 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
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No - I'm saying that an upgrade that does exactly the same thing as the earlier version should "just work" without having to research cryptic error messages you get after the new software fails to load. What I'm saying is that Linux should be as easy as Windows.
A new MAJOR version release should ring bells that you need to read for any possible problems. This is true for other widely popular software, ie: apache.
I will admit, certain distro vendors such as debian/RH/Fedora/Ubuntu , do, do much software a dis-service by their hacks and non standard file locations, because people with problems come to us for support expecting us to fix a mess created by someone else. That I know annoys a lot of people trying to convert to linux from windows and you're right, then they say bugger it and go back to windows. but.. everyone wants to be special I suppose :)