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More Linux Stuff.
I installed a bunch of Linux utilities (such as a .swf viewer) the other day that I was completely unable to get working. Later on, due to my system getting itself into an unworkable state, I was forced to reboot. (If I had been able to figure out from the command line what program had gone crazy, I'm sure I could have avoided the reboot. In the long run though, it was the easier solution).
Anyway, I noticed just now that all of those utilities are now just working. Clearly one of the dependencies required a reboot of the system, for some obscure reason. I have now noticed a couple of occasions when it has seemed that a reboot was in order for newly installed things to work right. I think some sloppy Windows coding practices are slipping into the distros.
On a much brighter note, now that I'm getting used to this distro, there are a bunch of things that I do like. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are far faster applications under Linux that under Windows XP and the Linux version of Thunderbird doesn't seem to suffer from some of the file-locking bugs that have annoyed me in Windows (then again, I've yet to install all the addons that I usually have in both of these).
Also, as much as it is true that there are a bunch of things that are easy in Windows that are Hard to Impossible in Linux, there's an equal (or perhaps greater) number of things that are Hard to Impossible in Windows that are easy in Linux. So, some of the setup chores that I was not looking forward to turned out to be rather simple. Basically, if the right solution to a problem involves a careful separation of client and server responsibilities, then Linux will get it right, and Windows will suck at it.
Anyway, I noticed just now that all of those utilities are now just working. Clearly one of the dependencies required a reboot of the system, for some obscure reason. I have now noticed a couple of occasions when it has seemed that a reboot was in order for newly installed things to work right. I think some sloppy Windows coding practices are slipping into the distros.
On a much brighter note, now that I'm getting used to this distro, there are a bunch of things that I do like. Both Firefox and Thunderbird are far faster applications under Linux that under Windows XP and the Linux version of Thunderbird doesn't seem to suffer from some of the file-locking bugs that have annoyed me in Windows (then again, I've yet to install all the addons that I usually have in both of these).
Also, as much as it is true that there are a bunch of things that are easy in Windows that are Hard to Impossible in Linux, there's an equal (or perhaps greater) number of things that are Hard to Impossible in Windows that are easy in Linux. So, some of the setup chores that I was not looking forward to turned out to be rather simple. Basically, if the right solution to a problem involves a careful separation of client and server responsibilities, then Linux will get it right, and Windows will suck at it.
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The file locking thing in Thunderbird may well be a serious Linux advantage though, since the filesystems have generally saner rules.