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Originally Posted by jgaiser
I don't know what distribution you are using, but there is *no* need to type "sudo" or "apt-get" in the Ubuntu distribution I'm currently using.
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Does that not depend on if you have the repository configured, if the thing you want is even IN a repository, and how that thing is packaged? Sure seems to be. I'd not have known to mention it if I had not run into it.
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Click on Applications -> System Tools -> Administration -> Ubuntu Software Center. Type "Java" in the search box and hit return. First on list is OpenJKD Java (I realize that it isn't oracle, but it works with Minecraft).
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The Minecraft Linux install instructions say "please use Oracle's JVM."
Why should a typical user not follow the instructions?
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I spent 1/2 hour this morning trying to figure out how to do a simple (seemed to me) administrative action on Win7. Lots of typing in search boxes trying to figure the right combination of words to get the right answer
I realize that you've probably been using Windows for a long time and have a lot of experience in getting things done. Because you don't have experience with another OS doesn't mean that it's wrong or bad, just different.
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It's not that. I can adapt. I'm good enough at this stuff as both a technologist and a tech trainer to understand the difference between "different" and "harder" in context, and I can make a disctinction between stuff a typical user would need to do in the course of owning a computer versus stuff that they should not need to mess with.
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I've never really advocated that the entire world should move to Linux. As I said somewhere above, it isn't for everybody.
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Why on Earth not, then? If it's as easy as Windows or Mac, plus is free, who is it NOT for?