Re: ******** Video: FOSS Superiority Versus Commercial Software **********

On 12/5/24 4:56 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:07:51 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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Linux _sucks_ the way it is presented to people. It could very easily be
without these issues only if those who work on Linux itself wanted to.
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 If your distro would supply MathMod then their wouldn't be this
problem, but MathMod is probably considered too esoteric for most
distros to adopt.
 I am surprised that the build instructions did not work as the qmake
should have determined everything.
 Regardless, the problem is not with GNU/Linux but with the distros.
    

MathMod is just an example. The issue here is installing a random software that runs on Linux machines.
I needed to scan and print a few pages a few months ago. I got my printer and attached it to my linux computer. For the rest of that day I could not make the scanner work. I tried every scan app that I could put my hands on, and they won't see the scanner (on a Canon printer). I looked everywhere for a linux driver for it. There was none. Stackoverflow related sites were all full of crap for it. Old as well as new. Useless. The one offered by Canon I didn't get from Canon site (it didn't have it anymore) but from one that had saved what was offered earlier by Canon. And it did not work either. The scanner/printer is a few years old.
So next day, at last, I stumbled on a scanning software that when I installed it, it could see the scanner. Just out of the blue, this one, out of many others, could do it. Didn't ask for driver or anything. But by then I had dusted off my Winblows computer and scanned and printed what I wanted in a jiffy; literally in about 10 minutes I was done.
This is not a joke. It speaks of linux' demise as a forever OS that's limited to a few, not all. And it is certainly so by design.