This may be true of Mint 8 EJ, but it is certainly not in Mandriva. On Windows you need do nothing more than visit a website, or if you have the updater it automates it. In Mandriva, I have to find the right release, download it, sudo this and that and put bits of it here and there, following a guide written for another distro. The package updater does zip for me. This is one of the reasons that I'm looking into a different distro.
Don't get me wrong, I'm very pro Linux and very rarely stray into Windoze these days, but it isn't there yet for the average punter, especially where installing software is concerned if it falls outside that which is in the repos.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm very pro Linux and very rarely stray into Windoze these days, but it isn't there yet for the average punter, especially where installing software is concerned if it falls outside that which is in the repos.
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