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Originally Posted by Sregener
No, I pretty much hate Linux, too. The software dependencies that make you hunt for packages you don't even know the name of drove me to distraction. I'm sure they've made improvements in the last five years, but it was a nightmare for me.
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There are vast improvements in the last [insert number you like here] years.
It depends on what you are trying to do.
Nowadays the vast majority of software I use is in repositories, so there is no hassle at all.
The only packages I depend on that I do not get from repositories are Vim, which I like to compile myself and Calibre that I update every week.
Just yesterday I reinstalled my home system to the new Linux Mint Petra [16] KDE flavor Release Candidate.
I was up and running within one hour, including migrating my Firefox setup (passwords, history, plugins, the whole nine yards), migrating my mail setup and Calibre (again including all plugins, settings, libraries [that I keep outside my Home directory]. Most of the software I use regularly is there, I will install everything else when I need to. One of reasons I did not update existing install was that I wanted to get rid of lots of installed programs that I do not use.
Everything worked straight out-of-the-box. Even the Wifi driver that I had to tinker with in previous releases, because the chipset was freshly introduced one.