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Originally Posted by Jellby
Once you get the knack of it, it becomes:
1) Windows: Google the program. Try to find which is the homepage, don't get lost among all the other spammy, add-stuffed webpages that offer the download. Find the download page. Choose your version of windows, or make sure it is supported (XP? Vista? 8? 64bits?). Click the green button. Save the installer (you want to keep the installer file for backup, don't you?). Find where the hell you saved the installer. Run it. Chose where you want it installed (one user? system-wide?). Unselect all the small pieces you don't want installed. Configure all kinds of paths...
2) Linux: apt-get install program_name
Bottom-line: both can be as simple or as complicated as you want  |
You got me there. There's a saying: "Stress is the product of an uninformed mind." And my mind has been woefully uniformed about Linux. But as the info. is coming in I'm calming down and very much liking what I'm getting to know about Linux. And you're right about the Windows downloads. And I can add all the 'add McAfee Security Site Checker' and all the 'candy' that you get hit up with on the downloading process.
Is there anyplace on MR that people discuss Linux? (I've already gotten restricted for asking too many questions at Ubuntu One--the limit is 6 in a 24hr period.) Thanks!