Re: Damning With Faint Praise

DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:

Here's a GuhNoo licensed math package Feeb touted recently.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/mathmod/files/MathMod-12.0/
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There's a Windows executable already built.  I downloaded and installed
it in about 1 minute.
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https://imgur.com/a/KP0nRSS
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There's no Linux executable, so you have to compile it from source.
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Go ahead and download the source and do that, and show a screenshot of
it running on your Linux crapbox.
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See you never.
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Another Linux FAIL.

 
Whatever he did to run it is impressive, I give him,

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Feeb already had the Qt libraries installed.  You might or might not.
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Edit: distrowatch shows Mint includes an older version of Qt by default.
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but the notion
that you would have to have Windows because of some incredible app is
only true for things you really can't live without, that could exist
in the Unix world too, things you'd give up by using Windows.

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My point isn't that you have to have Windows.  My point is to see what
happens when a cola Linux advocate is forced to compile an app from source.
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So far you ran away.  Why?

You can choose Wintendo or you can choose to be selective in what you
use with Linux.  Trust me, we get by.  Can't wish for M$ back.

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Section 1.

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abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
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Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
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